Mercury Rising: Did You Know Bhubaneswar’s Brush With 40°C Plus February In Past?

Bhubaneswar: With mercury shooting to 39.4°C, the Odisha capital was the hottest in the country on Thursday.

The city can expect little respite with the weatherman predicting the maximum temperature to remain 2 to 4 degrees above normal at many places in Odisha during the next four to five days.

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However, it is not the highest maximum temperature that Bhubaneswar has recorded in the month of February.

On February 23, 1963, the city witnessed 42.7°C. 53 years later, the mercury again soared past 40°C. The temperature recorded on February 21, 2016, was 40.9°C. 

The Met office had then attributed the rise to a clear sky, weak sea wind, lack of northern wind and stronger south-west wind. An anti-cyclone flow (opposite of low pressure) centred over Odisha had also contributed to the soaring mercury.