Jammu:
Jammu recorded the season's highest temperature at 44degrees Celsius on Thursday, five degrees above normal, an official said on Friday.
"Jammu city recorded the hottest day of the season on Thursdayas the maximum temperature rose to 44 degrees Celsius which is five notchesabove normal," an official of the weather department told IANS .
The highest ever temperature for the month of June in Jammucity has been 47.2 degrees Celsius that was recorded June 12, 1953.
The Met Office has forecast a marginal increase in themaximum temperature in Jammu during the next few days.
The intense heat wave conditions affected normal life in theotherwise commercially busy city. Few business operated during the daytime aspeople chose to remain indoors.