Brace for a warmer summer ahead with the weathermen predicting “above normal” temperature across the country this season, even as January was recorded as the eighth warmest in 116 years.
Several States are likely to witness heatwave conditions, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said in its summer forecast for the season (March to May). The IMD said that the northwest region of the country would be the worst affected with temperatures of more than one degree Celsius above normal. In the rest of the country, temperatures are likely to be a degree Celsius above normal.
“Above normal temperatures up to one degree Celsius are likely to prevail over all meteorological sub-divisions of the country, except the northwest India where temperatures are likely to be more than 1 degree Celsius above normal,” the IMD said.
Above normal conditions are likely over “core heatwave zone”. This includes Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Delhi, Haryana, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Bihar, Jharkhand, West Bengal, Odisha and Telangana.