While temperature came down marginally in the coastal districts, the western districts continued to sizzle under gruelling heat wave on Saturday.
Titilagarh, at 45.6 degree Celsius, recorded the highest temperature in the State for the second consecutive day, while the places that recorded temperature above 40 degree C were Jharsuguda (41.9), Keonjhar (41.4), Sambalpur (43.8), Sundargarh (43), Hirakud (42.3),Talcher (40), Bhabanipatna (44.2), Balangir (43), Sonepur (43.5 and Malkangiri (43.5).
Temperature in the capital city of Bhubaneswar came down by one degree, having recorded 39.2 degree C.In a release here on Saturday evening, the local Met office predicted heavy rainfall at one or two places over Odisha in the next 48 hours under the influence of a low pressure in the Bay of Bengal. However, the temperature will rise again, it added.