By – Aditi Gupta
The intense heatwave in Uttar Pradesh isn’t getting any better. Kanpur was the country’s hottest spot on Saturday. In Kanpur, the daytime temperature was 46.3 degrees. At 35.2 degrees Celsius, this place had the hottest night in the entire nation.
The heat wave continued to affect the majority of the state. In various places on Saturday, the heat claimed the lives of 31 persons. The Meteorological Department predicts that conditions remain the same until Monday. On Sunday, the temperature is expected to climb as well.
Senior scientist Atul Kumar Singh of the Meteorological Department Center says that starting on the evening of June 18, a fresh western disturbance may impact North West India. Because of the effect of moist easterly breezes from the Bay of Bengal, cloud cover is predicted in the eastern Terai region after June 17. Additionally, rain is a possibility. A little weather improvement can be beneficial in this kind of situation.
In Kanpur and Bundelkhand on Saturday, twenty people lost their lives to the heat. Out of them, eight perished in Hamirpur, one in Banda, six in Chitrakoot, three in Mahoba, and six in Kanpur. In addition, 14 other persons died from heat-related causes in and around Varanasi. 13 of these died in Ballia, two in Mirzapur, one in Ghazipur, and seven in Varanasi.
During the next four to five days, the Southwest Monsoon can advance in Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, Odisha, Coastal Andhra Pradesh, and a few other areas of the North-Western Bay of Bengal, Gangetic West Bengal, the remaining portions of Sub-Himalayan West Bengal, and certain areas of Bihar, based on Senior Meteorologist Atul Kumar Singh of the Regional Meteorological Center, who was providing a monsoon update on Saturday. The conditionsare right for this. It won’t be evident how the monsoon continues to advance in Uttar Pradesh until it concludes moving through Bihar.