India Heatwave Live Updates: 8-year-old boy dies due to intense heatwave in Sangrur; IMD predicts heatwave in parts of Maharashtra

A man bathes to get respite from the heat on a hot summer day, in Ajmer, Thursday. (PTI)

Severe heatwave conditions have been consistently reported over large parts of India since the beginning of the summer season in March. On Sunday, the mercury touched nearly 50 degrees Celsius in some areas of Delhi and Uttar Pradesh, a day after Jacobabad in neighbouring Pakistan had recorded 51 degree Celsius.

This year, March and April saw early and unprecedented heat across India. March was the warmest and April was the fourth-warmest in 122 years. Though heatwave over large parts of north and central India is an annual phenomenon in May, the maximum temperatures in areas of Delhi and Jammu and Kashmir have been unusually high.

 

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