People in the national capital had to sweat it out with the humidity level oscillating between 88 and 58 per cent. The maximum temperature settled at 36 degrees Celsius.
According to the MeT department, 2.7 mm of rainfall was recorded at 8.30 AM.
In Assam, the flood situation improved with the water level of Brahmaputra and Barak rivers along with their tributaries showing a receding trend even as two persons were killed in the state, taking the death toll this season to 75.
More than 1.65 lakh people are still affected in Lakhimpur, Biswanath, Barpeta, Dhubri, Goalpara, Morigaon, Nagaon, Karbi Anglong, Golaghat, Jorhat, Sivasagar, Karimganj, Hailakandi and Cachar districts.
In Uttar Pradesh's Bhadohi district, two children were killed and three persons sustained burn injuries when lightening struck them.
According to the IMD, rainfall was experienced in all the districts of Odisha.
Lahunipara and Gurundia in Sundargarh, Laikera in Jharsuguda district and Kuchinda in Sambalpur district recorded 5 cm rainfall, while Udala in Mayurbhanj district received 4 cm rainfall in the last 24 hours.
Patna, which witnessed incessant rains till afternoon, registered 49.1 mm rainfall, the Met office said.
Bhagalpur received 20.2 mm rains, Gaya registered 3 mm, while Purnea received 0.4 mm rainfall today, the Met office said.
Purnea recorded a maximum temperature of 32.5 degrees Celsius, followed by 30.4 deg C in Patna, 30.1 deg C in Gaya and 29.6 deg C in Bhagalpur, bulletin said.
In Himachal Pradesh, the weather was sultry in its lower hills amid moderate rainfall in parts of the state.
It was followed by Jubbar Hatti with 52 mm rainfall, Nahan 33 mm, Arki 30 mm, Hamirpur 24 mm, Bhoranj 19 mm, Sarkaghat 18 mm, Ghamroor 13 mm, Gaggal 11 mm, Bharari 10 mm, Ghumarwin 9 mm, Mandi, Dehra Gopipur and Kahu 7 mm each, Theog 6 mm and Baijnath 5 mm.
The mercury rose and hovered above normal limits at most places in Haryana and Punjab.
Hisar in Haryana registered a high of 35.3 degrees Celsius, two notches above normal limits.
In Punjab, Amritsar and Ludhiana recorded a high of 35.4 degrees Celsius and Patiala recorded above normal maximums at 35.4 degrees Celsius and 35 degrees Celsius respectively.
Most places in the eastern part of Rajasthan recorded heavy to moderate rainfall in last 24 hours.
Badesar recorded 11 cm rainfall followed by 9cm rainfall in Nayanagar, 7 cm each in Dungla, Kishangarh, Nimbahera, Sedwa and Badi-Sadri and 6 cm each in Malpura, Choti Sadri, Dorimana, Sallopat and Vijay Nagar.
In Telangana, rains occurred at isolated places as the southwest monsoon weakened in the state.
Wanaparthy near Mahabubnagar and other places in the state received one cm of rainfall each.
The weatherman has predicted heavy to very heavy rain at isolated places in Konkan and Goa. Heavy rain is likely to occur at isolated places in Andaman Islands, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura, parts of West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Karnataka.
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