As many as eight places in the State on Sunday recorded temperature above 40 degree Celsius. Talcher recorded the highest temperature of the day at 43.5 degree Celsius.
Sonepur registered 40.2 degrees Celsius followed by 42.1 degrees in Angul, 41.2 in Bhawanipatna, 40 in Titilagarh, 41 in Balangir, 40 in Keonjhargarh and 40.1 in Sambalpur.
Gopalpur recorded the lowest temperature at 30.2 degree Celsius while the mercury at the capital city of Bhubaneswar stood at 34.5 degree.
Meanwhile, the local Met centre predicted light rainfall/thundershower at one or two places over the districts of Keonjhar, Sundargarh, Mayurbhanj, Baleswar, Bhadrak, Kendrapada, Jagatsinghpur, Khordha, Cuttack, Gajapati, Koraput, Malkangiri, Rayagada, Puri, Jharsuguda, Deogarh and Angul while weather would be sunny in the remaining districts.