New Delhi, May 7
As far as weather goes, there is some good news and some bad. The good news is that the Meteorological Department has said people in the northwest can expect “marginal relief from the heat wave during the next two days as the temperatures are likely to fall one to two degrees on Monday and Tuesday from where they have been hovering for the past four days”.
More importantly, the department has also assured that high temperatures during this time of the year was a “normal activity and from the monsoon point of view, a good sign”.
But the not-so-good part is that in the immediate future, the next week or so, there are no signs of any significant let-up in the heat wave.
Spokesperson for the National Centre for Medium Range Forecast (NCMRF) Akhilesh Gupta says that after Monday and Tuesday, things will be back to square one and during the following three days temperatures will continue to hover above the normal.
In the Capital, the temperature today touched 44.5 °C, just a 0.1 degree less that yesterday’s maximum of 44.5 °C that made Saturday the hottest day of the season here.
“Today the temperature is also 5 degrees above normal and we are not expecting any significant fall in temperature in the coming week.
But some relief can be expected on Monday and Tuesday when the temperatures will fall by about one to two degrees due to western disturbances. People can expect some dust storms, which will cool parts of northwest, including Punjab Haryana, Delhi and northern parts of Rajasthan,” he says.
The Central India, however, will continue to sizzle as the NCMRF does not expect any significant change in temperatures and blistering heat wave during the next five days at least.
But Dr Gupta assures that adequate warming of the land is necessary, otherwise it can have an adverse effect on monsoon.
“From the monsoon point of view, high temperatures during this time of the year is a good sign,” he says.
Meanwhile, most of the North India continued to experience scorching heat for the fourth day with the mercury remaining significantly above normal.
Delhi has been recording the highest temperatures during May in the past five years.
Weathermen say that the rise in temperatures in the region during this time of the year was due to the absence of western disturbances, which can bring showers.
