30 places in Odisha record day temperatures at 40 Degrees Celsius or above; check details

Bhubaneswar: With mercury on the rise at several places in Odisha, at least thirty places of the State witnessed day temperatures at 40 Degrees Celsius or above, today.

Baripada town recorded the highest maximum (day) temperature at 44.6 Degrees Celsius, followed by Nuapada (44.0), Talcher (43.8), Jharsuguda, and Keonjhar each (43.6), Angul (43.3), Bolangir (43.2), Boudh, and Sundargarh each (43.0), Dhenkanal (42.9), Titilagarh (42.5), Rourkela (42.1), Bhawanipatna, and Nayagarh each (42.0), Chandbali, and Hirakud each (41.9), Bhadrak (41.8), Malkangiri, and Sambalpur each (41.7), Bhubaneswar, and Cuttack each (41.6), Jajpur, and Paralakhemundi each (41.0), Bargarh, Kendrapara, Phulbani, Sonepur each (40.8), Balasore, and Khordha each (40.5) and Jagatsinghpur (40.0).

Temperature forecast: No large change in the Maximum (day) temperature during the next 24 hours and a gradual fall by 2°C to 3°C during the subsequent three days and a rise by 2°C to 3°C thereafter at many places over the district of Odisha.

People are to take precautionary measures while going outside during the day hours between 1100 Hrs IST and 1500 Hrs IST, a special bulletin of the IMD regional centre in Bhubaneswar advised.