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Amid searing weather, a look at the top hottest cities in India

A burning heatwave has grasped a few pieces of India throughout the previous fourteen days. The India Meteorological Division (IMD) has given a ‘high’ alert for the heatwave in Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Gangetic West Bengal, and an ‘orange’ alert in Odisha, Bihar, Jharkhand, and Telangana.

As per the IMD, a city in Andhra Pradesh is right now the hottest among all urban communities in the country.

Nandyal, Andhra Pradesh, 46.2 degrees Celsius

Palawancha, Telangana: 45.2 degrees Celsius

Bolangir, Odisha, 45 degrees Celsius

Rentachintala, Waterfront, Andhra Pradesh, and Yanam: 44.8 degrees Celsius

Karur Paramathi, Tamil Nadu: 44.3 degrees Celsius

Kalaikunda, Gangetic West Bengal, 44.2 degrees Celsius

Sheikhpura, Bihar, 41.1 degrees Celsius

Balurghat, Sub-Himalayan West Bengal: 41 degrees Celsius

The IMD, in its notice, said that “heatwave to extreme heatwave conditions” are probable in many pockets of Gangetic West Bengal and disengaged pockets of Bihar on Friday. It further added that heatwave conditions are probable in Sub-Himalayan West Bengal, Jharkhand, Odisha, Maharashtra, Saurashtra, Kutch, Gujarat locale, seaside Andhra Pradesh and Yanam, Rayalaseema, Telangana, Tamil Nadu, Puducherry and Karaikal, and inside Karnataka.

Prominently, a heatwave is proclaimed when the most extreme temperature is more than 40 degrees Celsius and 4.5 degrees better than average. In the meantime, a serious heatwave is pronounced when the temperature is over 40 degrees Celsius and 6.5 degrees better than average.

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In the meantime, the IMD has likewise given a ‘yellow’ alert for precipitation in Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Meghalaya, Sikkim, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura, Kerala, and Jammu and Kashmir.

The precipitation is reasonable due to a “cyclonic flow that lies over upper east Bangladesh and a box that runs from Bihar to Nagaland in lower tropospheric levels, and furthermore, because of another cyclonic dissemination that is lying over upper east Assam at lower tropospheric levels,” as the climate division had said before.