Delhi Hits 52.3 Degrees. List Of Top 10 Hottest Places Today In India

Delhi’s Mungeshpur recorded India’s highest-ever temperature since records began. The weather monitoring station in northwest Delhi recorded a temperature of 52.3 degrees Celsius today, though rain later in the day brought respite from the heat.

Here’s a list of 10 hottest places in India

Mungeshpur, Delhi – 52.3 degrees CelsiusPhalodi, Rajasthan – 51 degrees CelsiusSirsa, Haryana – 50.3 degrees CelsiusGwalior, Madhya Pradesh – 48 degrees CelsiusNarela, Delhi – 47.9 degrees CelsiusRohtak, Haryana – 47.7 degrees CelsiusChuru, Rajasthan – 47.4 degrees CelsiusBikaner, Rajasthan – 47 degrees CelsiusJagdhishpur, Haryana – 46.5 degrees CelsiusSri Ganganagar, Rajasthan – 46 degrees Celsius

The temperature in Delhi’s Mungeshpur was more than nine degrees higher than expected, the second day of record-breaking heat, and pushed up the mercury by more than a degree from the 2002 record of 49.2 degrees Celsius.
The national capital also reported its all-time high power demand of 8,302 megawatts (MW) amid the heatwave as more and more residents turned on power-intensive air-conditioning, electricity department officials said.

A fall of up to 4 degrees Celsius over south Rajasthan districts – Barmer, Jodhpur, Udaipur, Sirohi, and Jalore – has been recorded today due to moist wind incursion from the Arabian Sea, indicating the beginning of the heatwave reduction over northwest India.