The coastal climate melted away as the State Capital turns a heat island on Sunday.
Bhubaneswar, where the maximum day temperature has remained all the way below 38 deg c when the interior and western districts were simmering in intense heat during the most part of April month, has come under the sweeping heat wave today. The mercury has shot up to cross the 43 degree Celsius (43.3) today.
The Capital City today has recorded 5 deg C above the April normal temperature. As per IMD, Bhubaneswar has recorded its third-highest April temperature reading since 2011. The city had recorded 45.8 deg on April 11, 2016 and 43.7 deg on 16 April 2019.
The shooting up of the mercury is not a new trend observed this time, because last year the mercury shot up to 43.2 deg C on April 25.
If the local Met's forecast is to be believed, the Capital City will record around 41 deg C on Monday and 40 deg C on Tuesday.
From Wednesday, the mercury will meltdown and the maximum day temperature will tumble to around 38 deg C.
The local met department has maintained that when the mean thunder days in the Capital city in April had been 4 days, this April the City had not even witnessed 2 mean days of thunderstorms.
However, weather experts blamed the mercury rise on the change in direction of wind over the Capital City. Owing to south-easterly wind and the drop in wind velocity to around 6kmph during the noon hours, the cityscape had become a blast furnace today.