India To Sizzle Under Severe Heatwave Conditions, IMD Sounds Nationwide Alert | Watch | ET Now

Añadido: 2026-05-22

[00:00:40]About weather conditions, particularly in terms of maximum temperature, then maximum temperature is on the higher side and many places in Uttar Pradesh as well as Madhya Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana heat conditions have been realized. If you talk about for next one week, then we're expecting heat wave conditions to continue over different parts of northwest and central India, particularly over Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Vidarbha, within orange alert has been also issued for these regions. Also in the Rajasthan Telangana, coastal Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, Chhattisgarh also we're expecting heat wave conditions during next seven days.

[00:02:31]>> Last year we saw the El Nino affecting the southwest monsoon season and obviously strong El Nino condition they continue through the fall of the year even this winters and continue even now also. Okay, the things have not come back to normal and so neutral conditions are yet to be there. That will happen around possibly May end or sometime in June only. Okay, at this moment El Nino still remains. Conditions are there.

[00:03:01]Temperatures are high in the Pacific Ocean more than the normal 1.2 degree centigrade above the normal even at this point of time. So it will take a little four or five possibly six weeks for that to normalize.

[00:04:22]>> Oh.