New Delhi: Delhi’s Mungeshpur area Wednesday logged a maximum of 52.3 degrees Celsius, the highest ever temperature recorded in the city, officials said. On Tuesday, the weather station in the northwest Delhi locality recorded 49.9 degrees Celsius. A day later, the temperature rose further with the weather station recording a maximum temperature of 52.3 degrees Celsius at 4.14 pm, according to the website. An IMD official told, this is the highest ever maximum temperature recorded so far in Delhi.
Explaining the reason behind the rising mercury, IMD regional head Kuldeep Srivastava said the city’s outskirts are the first areas to be hit by hot winds from Rajasthan. Mahesh Palawat, the vice president of Meteorology and Climate Change at Skymet Weather, said, ‘In open areas with vacant land, there is increased radiation. Direct sunlight and lack of shade make these regions exceptionally hot.’
