Record temperature of 52.9 degrees Celsius in Delhi last week was wrong by three degrees: Kiren Rijiju
The Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) investigated Wednesday’s readings from the weather station in Mungeshpur, a densely populated corner of Delhi, “and found a sensor error of 3°C”, the state’s science minister said. Earth, Kiren Rijiju.
“Corrective measures are now in place,” the minister said, sharing the conclusion of a draft report on the record readership rate on social media platform X.
He did not give a corrected figure for Wednesday’s temperature.
The IMD said in a statement that the maximum temperature reported by the Mungeshpur weather station “is not correct due to a sensor malfunction”.
However, the city’s heat record still seems to have been broken.
Two weather stations in the capital reported temperatures of 49 C (120.2 F) and 49.1 C (120.38 F) for Wednesday. The IMD said both these stations had been checked and it had not reported any sensor errors.
The highest temperature recorded previously in New Delhi was 48.4°C in May 1998, according to the IMD draft report.
For several days, extreme heat has ravaged certain regions of India. At least 33 people, including serving election officials, died on Friday following suspected heatstroke in the northern states of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar and Odisha in the east.
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