Eastern parts and interiors of the South Peninsula have been reeling under extreme heat for the last few days. Kurnool, Nandyal, Cuddapah, and Anantapur were the hottest with temperatures in mid 40’s. Nandyal recorded a maximum temperature of 45.6°C, the highest in the country. The interior parts of Odisha and West Bengal also witnessing the searing heat with temperature hovering between 42° and 44°C. There has been isolated weather activity over parts of Chhattisgarh, Odisha, East Madhya Pradesh and Vidarbha. However, the spread and intensity is too less to provide any significant relief.
Anticyclone in the Bay of Bengal, off Odisha coast, has been displaced far to the east. Dry and hot northwesterly winds have been sweeping Bihar, Jharkhand, West Bengal and Odisha. Titlagarh, Sambalpur, Bhawanipatna, Keonjhargarh, Bolangir, Angul, Cuttack and Baripada in Odisha are constantly whizzed by flaring heat and berg winds. Parts of West Bengal bordering Jharkhand have similar conditions. Bankura, Malda, Burdwan, Purulia, Panagarh, Midnapore, Kalaikunda and Kolkata are reeling under maximal heat with temperatures running 5-7°C above the normal, amounting to severe heat wave conditions.
Rayalaseema region of Andhra Pradesh was the hottest pocket in the country. There is a trough/ wind discontinuity extending from Vidarbha to Kerala, cutting across Karnataka, Rayalaseema and the interiors of Tamil Nadu. This trough is not getting moist winds from either side of the coastline and therefore is lying inactive. Rather it is generating extreme heat, blazing parts of Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.
Neither the anticyclone over the Bay of Bengal nor the Peninsular India trough will become active, at least for the next 4-5 days. Heat wave conditions over large parts and severe heat in small pockets is likely over the eastern and southern parts of the country. Northern plains of the country will skip the extreme heat on account of passage of western disturbance, during this period. Gujarat seems to be in the queue for a fresh spell of heat, anytime by the end of this week.
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