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Pune’s Shivajinagar logs a May record as temperature touches 27.4°C

The Indian Express·Dipanita Nath·20 days ago
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The Pune weather made a record even as the sun rose on a scorching Wednesday. The thermometers at the India Meteorological Department’s (IMD) weather station at Shivajinagar showed the fourth-highest temperature for May since records started being maintained in 1969. The minimum temperature was 27.4 degrees Celsius, which is 5.1 degrees above normal. This was an increase of 5.7 degrees Celsius in just three days, since 21.7 degrees Celsius was recorded on May 10. The last time Shivajinagar, which hosts the city’s main observatory, woke up feeling so warm in May was in 2024, when the morning temperature was 27.3 degrees Celsius. Last year, the warmest May morning was much cooler at 25.3 degrees Celsius. Its record for the highest minimum temperature for May was 29.4 degrees Celsius on May 12, 1979. A day earlier that year, the minimum temperature was 28.2 degrees Celsius, the second-highest on record.…

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