Heat Wave Over North India, Weekend Relief Likely
Jun 9, 2025, 2:10 PM | Skymet Weather Team
Multiple factors have pooled together to bring soaring temperatures over North India, both in the hills and plains. The western disturbance has moved away. The east-west trough has weakened and shifted northward. The circulation bubbles have been filled up. Dry and strong northwesterly winds have been sweeping the plains, bringing more heat from across the western frontiers.
Frequent thunderstorms and dust storms activity during May kept the heat wave in abeyance from most parts. Barring extreme western parts of Rajasthan and isolated pockets of Gujarat, the month of May was amiable climatically for most parts of North India. However, a short burst of heat is expected over the plains of Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan, and Delhi during this week.
Hills will also feel the flavour to go beyond the threshold of 30°C at many places. The heat could spread its wings further to cover parts of Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh, as well.
The absence of any westerly system, coupled with a pause in the monsoon advancement, will lead to the heat wave spell over the region. The weather activity in terms of thunderstorm and dust storm is unlikely before 14th May 2025. The weather systems originating over the Bay of Bengal will bring in a change in the weather conditions, more likely on the weekend and later.
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Heat wave conditions have been prevailing over West Rajasthan and some pockets of Haryana. The temperatures have breached the 45°C mark at a few places. Hot air advection from across the border has added to the heat stress over these parts. The mercury level touched 49.4°C in Jacobabad (Pakistan) and 48.4°C in Sibi. Temperatures in excess of 47°C have been recorded at a number of places. The heat generated over these parts is being transported over Rajasthan with favourable wind flow. Ganganagar in Rajasthan has recorded a temperature of 47.4°C, about 5°C above normal and the highest in the country. Earlier, the city had registered the highest mercury level of the season at 47.6°C on 21st May 2025.
Heat wave conditions are likely to prevail over northern plains for the next about 4 days. The monsoon systems coming up in the Bay of Bengal and moving inland will provide change in the wind pattern, all along the Indo-Gangetic plains. This will be supplemented by a fresh westerly system. Under the combined influence, rain, thundershowers, dust storm, and strong gusty winds will abate the heat wave, sometime around the weekend and later.
