Updated On: 21 March, 2022 11:43 AM IST | Mumbai | IANS
For almost a week, heat wave and severe heat wave conditions had prevailed over Rajasthan, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Vidarbha, Odisha. Earlier in the week, maximum temperatures even in the Himalayan states and foothills had been higher than normal

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Bringing relief to scores of people reeling under the heat wave so early in the year, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said on Saturday that there is a falling tendency in maximum temperatures throughout the country.
Phalodi in west Rajasthan recorded the highest maximum temperature at 42.2-degree Celsius on Saturday.