Weather Update: Northweast, Central India Likely To See Another Heatwave. Some States To Receive Rainfall

During the next five days, Bihar, Jharkhand, West Bengal-Sikkim and Odisha are likely to experience isolated thunderstorm/lightning/gusty winds on May 5 and 6 and also over Northeast India.

New Delhi: Northwest India is likely to experience another spell of a heatwave from May 7, while in central India a similar condition is expected to prevail from May 8, according to Indian Meteorological Department. In a series of tweets, the Met department also informed that some states will receive heavy to moderate rainfall in the next couple of days.

Heatwave conditions are predicted over Rajasthan from May 7 to May 9, and over south Haryana, Delhi, southwest Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and the Vidarbha region of Maharashtra on May 8 and May 9, said IMD.

Between May 6 and May 8 heavy rainfall is expected in the Nicobar islands, while very heavy rainfall is expected in Andaman and Nicobar Islands due to the depression and formation of a low-pressure area over the south Andaman sea. Fishermen are advised not to venture into the Andaman Sea during the next 5 days and into the Southeast & East-central Bay of Bengal for the next 4 days. 

During the next five days, Bihar, Jharkhand, West Bengal-Sikkim and Odisha are likely to experience isolated thunderstorm/lightning/gusty winds (speed reaching 40-50 kmph). Similar weather conditions are likely to prevail in Northeast India for the next couple of days.

According to PTI, scanty rains owing to feeble western disturbances, northwest and central India experienced the hottest April in 122 years with average maximum temperatures touching 35.9 degrees Celsius and 37.78 degrees Celsius, respectively.

Several places in the country had logged their all-time high temperatures for April as the mercury leapt to 46-47 degrees Celsius under the impact of the torrid heatwave at month-end.

Amid the intense heatwave, India's peak power demand had reached an all-time high of 207.11 GW on Friday.

India saw its warmest March this year since the IMD began keeping records 122 years ago, amid a 71 per cent rain deficit.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi chaired an important meeting to review preparations for heatwave management and monsoon preparedness in which he stressed the need to take all measures to avoid deaths due to heatwave or fire incidents.

During the meeting, the IMD and the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) briefed about the persistence of high temperatures in March-May 2022 across the country, the Prime Minister's Office said in a statement.

Modi stressed that in view of rising temperatures, regular hospital fire safety audits need to be done.