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Now Skymet too warns of extremely hot summer this year
After IMD, private weather forecasting agency, Skymet too said today the coming summer season in India is expected to be extremely hot due to very less winter rains which normally occurs during December to February.The rains happen primarily over northwestern plains of Punjab, Haryana, Delhi-NCR, North Rajasthan and West Uttar Pradesh."In the absence of winter rains, levels of humidity also remained low and in turn dense fog that is peculiar phenomena of this part of the year also remained absent. All these factors coupled together kept the day temperatures high. Moreover, continuous approach of Western Disturbances blocked the flow of icy cold northwesterly winds, leading to further rise in mercury," Skymet said in its analysis posted on its website.It said that further as the country gradually progresses towards the pre-monsoon season, weather models are not indicating of much pre-monsoon activities over Northwest India that include rain and thundershowers, dust storm or hail ...
 "Now Skymet too warns of extremely hot summer this year")
Hottest February day in Delhi since 2007
Notably, on February 20 this year, Delhi had registered a maximum temperature of 32.4 degrees
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Summer sowing in Gujarat dips 22% on lack of water for irrigation
Summer sowing on 758,600 hectares this year is down by 215,300 hectares from 973,900 hectares in 2015
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