Delhi's Mungeshpur recorded India's highest-ever temperature since records began. The weather monitoring station in northwest Delhi recorded a temperature of 52.9 degrees Celsius today, though rain later in the day brought respite from the heat.
Here's a list of 10 hottest places in India
- Mungeshpur, Delhi - 52.9 degrees Celsius
- Phalodi, Rajasthan - 51 degrees Celsius
- Sirsa, Haryana - 50.3 degrees Celsius
- Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh - 48 degrees Celsius
- Narela, Delhi - 47.9 degrees Celsius
- Rohtak, Haryana - 47.7 degrees Celsius
- Churu, Rajasthan - 47.4 degrees Celsius
- Bikaner, Rajasthan - 47 degrees Celsius
- Jagdhishpur, Haryana - 46.5 degrees Celsius
- Sri Ganganagar, Rajasthan - 46 degrees Celsius
A heatwave map from IMD shows states, Union Territories divided into zones.
The temperature in Delhi's Mungeshpur was more than nine degrees higher than expected, the second day of record-breaking heat, and pushed up the mercury by more than a degree from the 2002 record of 49.2 degrees Celsius.
The national capital also reported its all-time high power demand of 8,302 megawatts (MW) amid the heatwave as more and more residents turned on power-intensive air-conditioning, electricity department officials said.
A fall of up to 4 degrees Celsius over south Rajasthan districts - Barmer, Jodhpur, Udaipur, Sirohi, and Jalore - has been recorded today due to moist wind incursion from the Arabian Sea, indicating the beginning of the heatwave reduction over northwest India.
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