Kanpur IAF station hottest in India at 46.3 degrees°

LUCKNOW: Brace for another sweltering week. The weather department has predicted there will be no relief from heatwave conditions across UP till Tuesday. Temperatures may gradually decrease by 2-3 degrees on Wednesday and Thursday, but relief is expected not before Friday when a spell of thundershowers may cool down temperatures in the state including Lucknow.
The maximum temperature in Lucknow on Saturday was 44.1 degrees Celsius, 6.1 units above normal, and the minimum temperature was 31.3 degrees Celsius, 4.3 notches above normal.Dry hot winds continued to lash the city. Meanwhile, the arrival of southwest Monsoon might be delayed in UP and Lucknow. The normal dates for arrival in UP is June 18, Lucknow June 23 and entire UP by June 30.
This year, the monsoon arrived in India two days in advance and moved rapidly for the next few days. However, the advancement slowed thereafter and now for the past two days, the currents have not moved further.
According to the IMD's daily All India Weather Forecast bulletin, monsoon has covered most parts of south and northeast India. As on Saturday, the northern limit of monsoon was passing through Navsari (Gujarat), Jalgaon, Amravati and Chandrapur (Maharashtra), Bijapur (Karnataka), Sukma (Chhattisgarh), Malkangiri (Odisha), Vizianagaram (Andhra Pradesh) and Islampur (West Bengal).
Conditions are favourable for advance of the monsoon into some more parts of Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, Odisha, coastal Andhra Pradesh, some parts of Gangetic West Bengal, remaining parts of Sub Himalayan West Bengal and some parts of Bihar over the next 4-5 day.
About the weather forecast, Mohammad Danish, senior scientist at the Met department, said: "Dry hot westerly winds (loo) coming from Rajasthan and clear sky are responsible for the heatwave in the state and the city. Similar conditions will prevail for the next few days.
However, there will be a slight change in the wind pattern from Wednesday. Moisture-laden easterly winds will also enter the state's atmosphere. Interaction between westerlies and easterlies will cause thunder activity resulting in light rainfall and storm in some parts of the east UP and at isolated places in the west between Friday and Sunday next week."