City temperatures near 45°C, Met dept issues ‘orange alert'
Ludhiana: Residents continue to experience a heatwave as the day temperature remains close to the 45-degree mark. Meanwhile, the Met department has issued an orange alert for Ludhiana for a day, asking the departments concerned to be prepared for very hot weather conditions.
As the heatwave continued to prevail in Ludhiana for the last few days, Thursday was no different as the same conditions were witnessed in the city. According to the Met department, the maximum (day) temperature in Ludhiana on Thursday was recorded at 43.4 degrees Celsius, which is 5.1 degrees more than normal and 0.6 degrees less than the day before. The minimum (night) temperature in the city on Thursday was recorded at 31.3 degrees Celsius, which is 5.7 degrees more than normal and 1.1 degrees more than the previous day.
Even as the hot weather continued in Ludhiana on the day, the Met department has issued an orange alert for the district for Friday and a yellow alert for Saturday, forecasting a heatwave and warm night on Friday and a heatwave on Saturday. The department also issued an orange alert for the departments concerned to be prepared because of the prevailing weather and a yellow alert to be updated with the weather.
The Met website suggests that day temperature is expected to rise to 45 degrees on Friday, remain the same the next day, and gradually drop to 42 degrees by Monday. The minimum (night) temperature is expected to remain 31 degrees for the next three days and fall to 29 degrees by Tuesday.
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