The northern and central India may not see any respite from soaring mercury this week as the Met department expects the heat wave to continue till May 27.
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Wednesday also sounded a red-coded alert for Haryana, Rajasthan and west Uttar Pradesh until May 27.
It has also issued an amber-colour alert for east Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and the Vidharbha region of Maharashtra.
There are four types of colour codes signifying the level of caution — green (which means no action), yellow (situation to be watched), amber (government agencies to be prepared for severe weather) and red (action needed by the agencies)
‘HeatwaveconditionsareverylikelytooccuratmanypartsofwestRajasthan,Haryana,ChandigarhandDelhi, at somepartsofWestMadhyaPradesh,Vidarbha,PunjabandEastRajasthanandatoneortwopocketsovernorthGujaratregion, Saurashtra, Kutch,EastMadhyaPradesh,HimachalPradesh, Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh,’ the IMD said in its forecast for Thursday.
The IMD also said that thunderstorm accompanied with gusty winds are very likely at isolated places over north Kerala, coastal Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, Karnataka, Lakshadweep, Haryana, Chandigarh, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and east Rajasthan.
With that, it also predicted ‘very likely’ heavy rains at isolated places of Arunachal Pradesh, Assam and Meghalaya.
