No relief from heatwave conditions, mercury likely to touch 44 degree Celsius in Delhi

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Delhi will continue to reel under an intense heatwave with the maximum temperature likely to touch 44 degrees Celsius on Friday, according to the India Meteorological Department (IMD).

The minimum temperature in the national capital was recorded two notches above normal at 25.8 degrees Celsius.

"Heatwave conditions in some parts very likely over West Madhya Pradesh, Vidarbha and in isolated places over Jammu, Punjab, Haryana-Chandigarh-Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, East Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Bihar, Jharkhand, westem parts of Gangetic West Bengal, Telangana and interior Odisha,” the IMD said in a bulletin issued at 8:30 am.

The relative humidity in the city was recorded at 28 per cent at 8.30 am, the weather office said.