Weather Updates Today LIVE: Strong winds reaching up to 111 kilometres per hour swept parts of Delhi on Tuesday evening, even as maximum temperatures across the national capital remained significantly above normal, according to weather officials.
Palam recorded the highest gusty wind speed of 111 kilometres per hour during the evening hours, while the Pusa area reported maximum winds of 48 kilometres per hour.
Among the city stations, Ridge recorded the highest maximum temperature at 44.7 degrees Celsius, 3.6 degrees above normal, followed by Lodi Road at 44 degrees Celsius, about 4 degrees above normal.
Palam recorded 43.8 degrees Celsius, 2.8 degrees above normal, Ayanagar registered 43.6 degrees Celsius, about 1.5 degrees above normal, and Safdarjung registered 43.5 degrees Celsius, about 3.5 degrees above normal.
The minimum temperature settled at 29.2 degrees Celsius at Safdarjung, 1.6 degrees above normal. Palam recorded a minimum of 28 degrees Celsius, 0.2 degrees below normal, while Lodi Road registered 27.4 degrees Celsius, 0.4 degrees above normal.
The minimum temperature settled at 28.3 degrees Celsius at Ridge and 28 degrees Celsius at Ayanagar, respectively.
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has forecast a partly cloudy sky on Wednesday with the possibility of thunderstorms and lightning at isolated places.
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Weather Today live: Heavy Rain, Waterlogging Disrupt Traffic In Hyderabad, 2 Electrocuted
At least two persons were electrocuted, and a massive traffic jam was reported in Hyderabad as the southwest monsoon brought widespread rainfall across Telangana.
The deaths were reported in Hyderabad's Mylardevpally area on Tuesday evening, when a low-tension streetlight cable was accidentally damaged and fell on the road during drain excavation work. The live electrical wire reportedly remained submerged in rainwater that had accumulated on the road following continuous rainfall.
Weather Today Live: Heavy Rainfall, Thunderstorms In Parts Of Tamil Nadu
The Regional Meteorological Centre (RMC) in Chennai has forecast widespread rainfall across Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, and Karaikal over the next few days under the influence of a low-pressure system over South India.
According to a weather bulletin issued by the Centre, several parts of the State are likely to receive light to moderate rainfall accompanied by thunderstorms and lightning on Wednesday.
Isolated places in Tamil Nadu, Puducherry and Karaikal are expected to witness rainfall. At the same time, heavy rainfall is likely at one or two locations in the hilly regions of Tamil Nadu's Tirunelveli district and the hill areas of Theni and Kanniyakumari districts.
The weather office has also warned of strong surface winds with speeds ranging between 40 kmph and 50 kmph in these regions during thunderstorm activity.
For Thursday, the RMC has predicted light to moderate rain accompanied by thunderstorms and lightning at a few places across Tamil Nadu, Puducherry and Karaikal.
Heavy rain is likely to continue at isolated locations in the hill areas of Tirunelveli and Kanniyakumari districts of Tamil Nadu, with strong winds expected to accompany the showers.
The rainfall is expected to intensify further in parts of western and northern Tamil Nadu in the coming days.
(IANS)
Weather Today Live: May Was The World's Second-Hottest On Record: EU Scientists
The world has just experienced the second-hottest May since records began, as climate change and the developing El Nino weather pattern conspired to push up average land and sea temperatures, the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) said on Wednesday.
- The hottest May on record was in 2024, in records going back to 1940.
- The average global temperature last month was 1.42 degrees Celsius above the average in 19th-century pre-industrial times.
- Western Europe experienced one of the most severe heatwaves ever recorded so early in the year.
- C3S says the extreme heat in Europe was in line with scientists' expectations of how climate change will affect the world's fastest-warming continent.
(Reuters)
