Rajasthan's Churu, 9 others from India among top 15 hottest cities in the world

With the people sweltering under a scorching heatwave in northern India, 10 of the 15 hottest places in the world in the last 24 hours were recorded from the country with Rajasthan’s Churu topping the list with 50 degree Celsius on Tuesday (May 26).

Also known as the gateway to the Thar desert, Churu, about 20km north of state capital of Jaipur was matched by Jacobabad in Pakistan as the hottest place on Earth on Tuesday according to weather monitoring website El Dorado.

Bikaner, Ganganagar and Pilani from Rajasthan were also on that list.

Uttar Pradesh’s Banda and Hisar in Haryana also recorded extreme temperatures of 48 degrees Celsius on Tuesday.

National capital New Delhi at 47.6 degrees Celsius made it to the eighth hottest city.

Jhansi at 47 degrees Celsius, Maharashtra’s Nagpur Sonegaon at 46.8 degrees Celsius and Akola 46.5 degrees Celsius followed Delhi.

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Currently, India is going through ‘Nautapa’, the nine hottest days of the season starting from Monday following which the India Metrological Department had predicted and issued a heatwave warning in the western and eastern regions of Rajasthan.

IMD has also predicted heatwave conditions in isolated places in Kota and Bundi in eastern Rajasthan and in Bikaner, Churu, Hanumangarh and Sriganganagar in the western part of the state.

Due to the extreme rise and fall in temperature in Churu in winters, the temperature goes to minus, while in summer, the temperature reaches 50 degrees Celsius.

Churu recorded the second-highest temperature in May in the last 10 years. Before this, Churu had recorded a temperature of 50.2 degrees Celsius on May 19, 2016, reported Hindustan Times.

(With inputs from agencies.)