Amid severe heatwave conditions in most parts of the country, Nagpur’s two of the four automatic weather stations (AWS) set up by the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) showed temperatures measuring over 50 degrees, even higher than what Delhi’s Mungeshwar AWS recorded on Wednesday.
The Nagpur AWS situated in the middle of the 24-hectare open agriculture land belonging to PDKV at Ramdaspeth, off North Ambazari Road, recorded 56 degrees on Thursday.
The other AWS along the Regional Meteorological Centre (RMC) at Sonegaon too recorded 54 degrees.
Delhi Mungeshpur had recorded 52.3 degrees on Wednesday. However, a day later, the IMD had raised questions about the accuracy of the sensors. “It could be due to an error in the sensor or the local factor. IMD is examining the data and sensors,” the weather agency had stated.
The continued heatwave conditions in several parts of the country, especially the northern region has claimed 54 lives so far. Worst affected places such as Delhi, Punjab, and Odisha have been logging maximum temperatures above 45 degrees Celsius over the last few days.
Twelve people died of suspected heatstroke in Odisha’s Sundargarh during the past 24 hours amid sweltering heat, news agency IANS reported.
According to PTI, four people, including a woman, were killed due to heatwave-related symptoms in Jharkhand’s Palamu district, which recorded the state’s highest maximum temperature at 47.4 degrees Celsius on Thursday. In Bihar, sunstroke killed eight on Thursday
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