After a few days of relief, mercury again soared in the State capital with temperature recorded at 42.8 degree Celsius on Wednesday. The sudden rise in temperature caught the city denizens unawares.
People all over the State continued to reel under the scorching heat wave with temperature of 17 places remaining above 40 degree Celsius on the day. Titilagarh continued to boil at 42 degree Celsius. Subarnapur recorded the highest of 46.3 deg C.
The other places which had temperature above 40 degree C were Chandbali (42.6), Cuttack (40.4), Angul (44.7), Baripada (42), Jharsuguda (43.8), Keonjhar (42.7), Sambalpur (43.9), Sundargarh (43.5), Hirakud (43.3), Talcher (45), Bhawanipatna (42), Balangir (42.7), Phulbani (40.8) and Dhenkanal (43.2). Meanwhile, the Met Department predicted rain and thundershower at a few places over north Odisha and at one or two places over south Odisha. local IMD Director SC Sahu said heat wave condition would prevail at a few places over interior Odisha.