Bengaluru/Mysuru, Apr 25: If you were out on the streets on Sunday afternoon in Bengaluru and Mysuru you may not need to know the temperature charts to tell you it was one of the hottest days ever. At 39.2 degrees Celsius, it was the hottest day Bengaluru has seen in eight decades, while Mysuru registered 39.9 degrees Celsius sharing its 100-year-old record.
The last time Bengaluru city was this hot was on April 30, 1931 and even then, the maximum recorded temperature was 38.3 degrees C. The humidity level recorded on Sunday was 73 per cent, which was 3 per cent below normal.
As the sun beat down on the capital city mercilessly in the afternoon, the extreme heat took its toll on those who were out travelling. The situation was not any better for those who stayed at home as the pervading heat reached all corners.
The coming days may not provide any relief as the situation does not seem to improve, with the India Meteorological Department forecast pegging the maximum temperatures in the 37 to 38 degrees C range. The department has warned of likely heatwave conditions over south-interior Karnataka over the next two days with the conditions returning to normal by April 27.
In Mysuru, it was the highest ever registered temperature for April and breached the previous temperature of 39.4 degrees C registered on April 4, 1917, as per the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD).
An official at the Central Sericultural Research and Training Institute (CSRTI), which has a temperature monitoring station and feeds the data to the IMD, said that this is a record for any month for Mysuru during the last 16 years for which they have the data and probably an all-time high for the city ever.
The temperature during April this year has been hovering constantly around 38 degrees C to 39 degrees C, and the 39.9 degrees C registered on Sunday was 6 degrees C above normal for April.
It was only on April 13 that Mysuru registered the highest temperature for a decade, but Saturday's temperature is a new high for 100 years, underlining the severity of the heatwave blazing across the country. There is no respite from the searing heat for the week, and the IMD has forecast a maximum temperature in the range of 39 degrees C till Tuesday and between 37 degrees C to 38 degrees C till April 30.
Heatwave condition continues to prevail in the region and Mandya registered 39.2 degrees C, which was 5 degrees above normal temperature for the season. An IMD release said Mandya the recorded highest maximum temperature of 39.2 degrees C for April and this is the highest in the last 43 years.
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