Rain expected to bring relief to spring heatwave-affected India

Record ID: 1671580

  • Title: Rain expected to bring relief to spring heatwave-affected India
  • Date: 6th May 2022
  • Summary: HYDERABAD, TELANGANA, INDIA (MAY 6, 2022) (ANI - No use India) VARIOUS OF VEHICLES PLYING AMID HEAT HAZE LOCALS ON BIKE WEARING HATS AND SCARF WOMAN WALKING WITH HEAD WRAPPED IN SCARF MAN WALKING WITH HANDKERCHIEF OVER HEAD VARIOUS OF HYDERABAD METEOROLOGICAL DEPARTMENT (SOUNDBITE) (English) DIRECTOR, METEOROLOGICAL CENTRE, HYDERABAD, NAGA RATNA, SAYING: "Telangana is likely to have light to moderate rains during next three to four days and today thunderstorm activity is likely to (be) experienced in one or two places along with lightning at 30-40 kilometers per hour at one or two places at some…few districts of Telangana and thereafter, temperatures are likely to increase by 2-3 degrees Celsius during next two to three days." AMRITSAR, PUNJAB, INDIA (MAY 06, 2022) (ANI- No use India) VEHICLES PLYING IN FRONT OF MONUMENTAL GATE VARIOUS OF VEHICLES PLYING LOCALS ON BIKE WITH FACES COVERED WITH SCARF CLOUDY SKIES/TRAFFIC
  • Embargoed: 20th May 2022 16:57
  • Keywords: India animals elephant forecast heat wave hot weather meteorological department rainfall students summer thunderstorm water
  • Location: HYDERABAD, TELANGANA/AMRITSAR, PUNJAB/ INDIA
  • City: HYDERABAD, TELANGANA/AMRITSAR, PUNJAB/ INDIA
  • Country: India
  • Topics: Asia / Pacific,Environment,Temperature
  • Reuters ID: LVA001GAUS8JZ
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text:Some Indian states are expected to get a much-needed relief in the form of rains, India's weather office said on Friday (May 6) as the South Asian nation battles an early spring heatwave.
    Although the southern Telangana state forecasted rainfall and thunderstorms, it is likely to be followed by an increase in temperature thereafter.
    "Temperatures are likely to increase by 2-3 degrees Celsius during the next two to three days," said the director of the meteorological centre of Hyderabad, Naga Ratna.
    Locals in Amritsar, home to the Sikhism's holiest shrine Golden Temple, rejoiced in relief as the temperatures dropped after a long span of heatwave.
    India suffered its hottest March in more than 100 years and April saw many places, including New Delhi, recording unusually high temperatures in excess of 40 degrees Celsius on most days.
    More than two dozen people have died of suspected heat strokes since late March, and power demand has hit multi-year highs.
    The country's National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) has categorised 23 of India's 28 states and some 100 cities and districts as being at risk of suffering extreme heat.
    Nineteen states have already made their own heat-action plans and some others are working on them, said NDMA's policy and planning adviser, Kunal Satyarthi.
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