China, where the temperature rose to the 50-degree mark witnessed a dramatic change as Mohe, a city in northeastern Heilongjiang province, plunged to minus 53C in January.
Ballia Chief Medical Officer (CMO) Dr Jayant Kumar said only two people have died due to heat stroke in the district till Sunday.
Goa weather: “Due to extreme heat and delay of in monsoon in the state, it is decided by the competent authority to close down all the institutions on June 10,” the circular read.
Weather Updates: The Met Office on Wednesday said that several Eastern Indian states will witness heatwave conditions for one or two more days.
Heatwave conditions prevailed in several states, including Maharashtra, Haryana, Delhi-NCR and West Bengal. A fatal heatstroke incident occurred in Maharashtra in which 11 people lost their lives.
The weather forecasting agency has predicted light to moderate scattered rainfall with thunderstorms and lightning in Delhi and adjoining parts of northwest India next week.
In July, France received "a total of 9.7 millimeters of rainfall on average", making it the driest July since 1959, as well as the fourth hottest month since 1900, the French daily quoted meteorologist Cyrielle Duchesne as saying.
Europe Wildfire: For a fifth day, firefighters in Spain were battling Friday to try to bring under control a fire started by a lightning strike in the west-central Las Hurdes area that has consumed about 5,500 hectares (13,600 acres).
IMD has predicted there'll be no significant change in maximum temperatures over many parts of northwest India till May 2, no significant change in maximum temperatures very likely over many parts of Central India and Gujarat till May 1.
The heatwave is expected to abate from Monday under the influence of a western disturbance, which is likely to affect northwest India from the night of May 1, IMD said.
India Meteorological Department said the spell of heatwave will persist over northwest and central India for the next five days and over east India for the next three days.
On Thursday (April 7), the maximum temperature settled at 40 degrees Celsius, five notches above the normal.
MeT dept.said the heatwave conditions in Rajasthan are likely to prevail on Saturday while some respite is expected from Sunday.
On Friday, Death Valley National Park in California recorded a staggering high of 130 degrees Fahrenheit (54 Celsius) and could reach the same high on Saturday.
Hundreds of deaths were being investigated as heat related in Oregon, Washington state and British Columbia.
Delhi on Thursday sizzled under heatwave conditions with the maximum temperature settling at 43.6 degrees Celsius.
Mount Shasta, the volcano that towers over the region, was shrouded in a haze from smoke plumes that could be seen in images from weather satellites in space.
A number of places in the Himalayan region are experiencing high temperatures with the mercury in Thoise in Ladakh's Nubra Valley and Solan hill station in Himachal Pradesh.
Lack of rainfall and hot winds blowing from Rajasthan was behind the severe weather condition, IMD said.
Much of the US East Coast is expected to witness temperatures top 32 degrees Celsius until Wednesday, reports Xinhua news agency.
Top News
