By – Aditi Gupta
At 48.5 degrees, Prithvipur in the Niwari district of Madhya Pradesh recorded the highest temperature. In the meanwhile, Bhopal, the capital, has had two deaths from heat. Ten districts saw readings higher than 47 degrees, and four districts got values above 48 degrees.
Madhya Pradesh’s heat is routinely breaking records. The vast majority of these cities are blazing like fires. For the second day in a row, the hottest place in the state was Prithvipur in the Niwari district. Here, the temperature was recorded at 48.5 degrees on Tuesday. Four state districts had recorded temperatures in excess of 48 degrees. Ten districts had temperatures higher than 47 degrees. 26 of the state’s cities had temps that were higher than 44 degrees. Datia ranked second with a temperature of 48.4 degrees, after Prithvipur. In Khajuraho it was 48 degrees, and in Rewa 48.2 degrees. In the meantime, 20 cities suffered a strong heat wave. The heat in Bhopal cost the lives of two people.
As per the data provided by the Meteorological Department, a severe heat wave affected 20 cities in the state on Tuesday. These include Guna, Katni, Shivpuri, Shahdol, Ashoknagar, Sehore, Bhopal, Sagar, Guna, Katni, Rewa, Khajuraho, Gwalior, Tikamgarh, Satna, Naugaon, Singrauli, Rajgarh, Damoh, and Malajkhand. Raisen, Umaria, Mandla, Shajapur, Khandwa, Khargone, Dewas, Seoni, Narsinghpur, Chhindwara, Jabalpur, Ratlam, Barwani, Ujjain, Indore, Dhar, Betul, and Neemuch had hot winds in a similar manner.
It is very hot in Bhopal, the state capital. Due to the high temperatures, two incidents of death have been reported in Bhopal. According to experts, heat stroke may have been the root cause of the deaths. At three in the afternoon, Ajay Pradhan, 36, was sitting in a municipal car when he unexpectedly left out. He started to release foam from his mouth. In a another illustration, Dhirendra Kumar, 57, was traveling in the afternoon from Lalghati to his home in Ashoka Garden. Next, he took a seat next to Bajaria Station Road on a sidewalk. After a while, he lost consciousness.
Senior scientist Ved Prakash of the weather department stated that Prithvipur had experienced before 48.7 degree temperatures. Similar temperatures were identified on Monday in Datia (47.4 degrees), Khajuraho-Guna (47.2 degrees), Ashoknagar (47.1 degrees), and Damoh (47 degrees). In the meantime, sixteen state districts suffered a dangerous heat wave. The location was under a red alert. These include Sagar, Sehore, Gwalior, Shivpuri, Shajapur, Naugaon, Tikamgarh, Katni, Khandwa, Ashoknagar, Damoh, Rajgarh, Niwari, Datia, Guna, Khajuraho, Ashoknagar, Damoh, and Rajgarh. They are Jabalpur, Mandla, Umaria, Rewa, Satna, Raisen, Bhopal, Khargone, Shahdol, and Dewas.