New Delhi, April 19 : A blistering heatwave continued in the national capital on Tuesday but the India Meteorological Department forecast light rain or drizzle in the next two days. “It will remain generally cloudy with light rain or drizzle” in Delhi on Wednesday and Thursday, it said. The maximum temperature on Tuesday was likely to settle around 42 degrees. Monday was recorded as this month’s seventh heatwave day, making this year’s April to be one of the warmest. The maximum temperature was recorded at 41.6 degrees Celsius on Monday, against the normal of 37 degrees, a departure above 4.6 degree Celsius. Strong dust-raising winds (speed reaching 25-35 kmph) are also very likely to prevail over Punjab, Haryana-Chandigarh-Delhi, north Rajasthan and West Uttar Pradesh on April 19 and April 20, said IMD. In other parts of the country, heatwave conditions were likely in isolated pockets over Jammu Division, Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar on April 18, over Punjab, Haryana-Chandigarh-Delhi, north Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Vidarbha and Gangetic West Bengal on April 18 and April 19 and over Jharkhand during April 18 and April 20. Apart from this, fairly widespread/widespread rainfall accompanied by thunderstorms/lightning/gusty winds is very likely over Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura, and Sub-Himalayan West Bengal and Sikkim during next five days, said IMD. JA MR
