With heatwave sweeping acros♌s Odisha, the mercury touched 44.6 degrees Celsius in the state capital on Friday, the highest during this summer.
Bhubaneswar day temperature touched 44.6 degrees 🐬Celsius during the day at 2.30 pm🔴, weather scientist Umashaknar Dash told reporters here.
He said the temperature in Bhubaneswar crossed 44 degrees Celsꦿiu♌s for the first time this season.
Dash said the IMD has urged people not to come out of their houses between 11 am to 3 pm as hot and intenꦏse humid condition prevails in most parts of the state.
The🎐 IMD said that Bhubaneswar was followed by Jharsuguda which recorded 43.6 degrees Celsius, Rourkela at 42.5, Chandbali 42.4 and Sambalpur 42.1 degrees Celsius.
In its mid-day weather bulletin, the Meteorological Centre in Bhubaneswar said that due to prevailing northwesterly/westerly dry air and high solar insolation, day temperature is likely to furth꧃er increase slightly by two degrees Celsius at many places in Odisha 🅘during the next 24 hours.
Thereafter, maximum temperature (day temperature) is likely to be above normal by four to six degrees Celsius i🗹n some parts of the state during the next four to five days, it said.
Meanwhile, the IMD issued a red warning (be alert) for different areas for Saturday and said heatwave to severe heatwave conditions may prevail in May🙈urbhanj, Jajpur, Keonjhar, Angul, Dhenkanal, Boudh, Sundargarh, Jharsuguda, Khurda, and Cuttack districts.
Similarly, heatwave conditions will prevail in Deogarh, Sambalpur, Sonepur, Balangir, Nuapada, Kalahandi, Kandhamal, Nayagarh, Rayagada, Bhadrak, Balasore, Jagatsinghpur🎉, Kendrapada, Malkangiri, Ganjam, and Gajapati districts, where the orange alert was sounded🙈.
The weath♛er office also issued heatwave warning for the nex𝔍t five days indicating no respite from the hot and humid weather conditions next week.
