BHUBANESWAR: For the third time city’s maximum temperature of the day touched 42.7 degree Celsius on Saturday. Rise in mercury level left the city people literally paralysed. It was unbearable to go outside after 11am, but the evening shower on the day gave some relief from the scorching heat and killer humidity. It continued for about one hour.
Traffic gets thinner in the city as
the temperature rises. On the other hand, irregular power cuts left the common
men’s life miserable. Though Chief Minister had given assurance for no power
cut during daytime, the power cut problem is rising day by day.
Besides the capital city, the
temperature of eleven places of the State was 45 plus and the hottest place of
the State Titilagarh was burning with highest 47.5 degree Celsius on Saturday. Sunstroke
death is rising day by day as it touched 90 non-officially and 23 officially.
According to the Bhubaneswar Met
Centre, Heat wave condition may prevail over some parts of interior Odisha
during next 24 hours. Thunder squall accompanied with hail and gusty surface
wind speed reaching 60-70 km per hour may occur at one or two places over
Odisha during next 24 hours, said centre director S Mishra.
Among all the tensionand tyranny
of heat, the peoples are eagerly waiting for monsoon as it will touch Kerala
coast by June first week and enter in Odisha by second week of June, said the
local Meteorological Centre.
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