New Delhi: It seems like an early summer in the capital with temperatures threatening to cross the dreaded 40 degree Celsius mark anytime now. After the second hottest March since 1900, April promises to be warmer still and it remains to be seen if the soaring mercury will set new records this year.

Visakhapatnam, April 2: Mercury has shot up generating heat wave conditions in coastal Andhra Pradesh. Except for the city and Kalingapatnam in Srikakulam district, temperatures have gone up in the entire coastal Andhra during the last 24 hours with Nellore recording a maximum temperature of 41 degrees Celsius.

With the onset of summers, the wait for mango starts. Speculations become rife about the mango crop.

This year, the heat wave-like conditions prevailing in the state even in March, are posing a threat to mango production even after bumper flowering.

BRAJRAJNAGAR: Summer has just begun but water- stressed Brajrajnagar is already feeling the heat.

Though political parties promise to mitigate the drinking water crisis during elections the assurances are gone with the end of polls and the denizens are left with parched throats.

Mercury is on the rise in most Madhya Pradesh districts with the day temperature reaching 40 degrees celsius.

The districts of Satna, Rewa and Gwalior recorded temperature of 40 degrees which was seven to eight degrees above normal during the past 24 hours. Similar rise in temperature was recorded in Jabalpur, Sagar Unjjain and Chambal divisions.

The city recorded an all-time high of 40.6 degrees Celsius on March 31, 1945
The city on Sunday recorded the hottest day of March in the past six years with the temperature shooting up to 39.2 degrees Celsius, as per the meteorological department.

Viju B | TNN

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Mumbai: Rajendra Pachauri, head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which came under fire for an error in predicting that the Himalayan glaciers would melt by 2035, said on Tuesday that the contentions of snowfall discrediting the meltdown were incorrect and there was no ambiguity that the glaciers were melting.