Soaring mercury coupled with constant power cuts

Soaring mercury coupled with constant power cuts has put residents in the city to hardships. Residents who are already facing a tough time with Hyderabad experiencing a maximum of 41.5 degree Celsius to 42.5 degrees Celsius the season’s highest temperature are also worried over the sudden power cuts in different spells in many parts of the city that is continuing throughout the day and even in night sometimes in various localities.


The local Meteorological office has forecast that the heat wave conditions would prevail over Telangana and isolated parts of Rayalaseema during the next two to three days. Besides, mainly dry weather is likely to prevail over Coastal Andhra, Telangana and Rayalaseema regions. The Met officials warned that the mercury would increase a couple of degrees further with maximum temperature likely to hover around 43 degrees Celsius in coming days.

Many parts of the state are in the grip of a heat wave with day temperatures shooting up rapidly in the last few days. Heat wave conditions are prevailing in Adilabad, Karimnagar Mahbubnagar, Krishna and other districts apart from Hyderabad. After gap of 10 years, Hyderabad has been experiencing the highest day temperature of around 42.5 degrees Celsius for the last few days.


The mercury continuing to soar and with no respite from the heat in sight and adding woes to it is the constant power cuts but one good news is many schools are revisiting their academic calendar, making changes to protect children from the harsh sun.


Delhi Public School, Gachibowli, has reduced school timings by an hour and the management has announced vacations would start a week in advance, from April 17 as against April 24 citing "summer’’ as the reason. "The normal school timing is 8 am to 3 pm but now it has been changed to 7.45 am to 1.30 pm.

Schools designated as SSC exam venues have been asked by the state government not to run afternoon classes because of the sweltering conditions. In addition, almost all CBSE schools in the city have either cut short school timings or have announced an early vacation.


The temperature was six to seven degrees above normal in most districts of Telangana this week. Already, heat wave warnings have been issued by the Met department across Hyderabad, Adilabad, Mahbubnagar, Karimnagar and Nizamabad..



A weather bulletin put out by the Indian Meteorological Department has cautioned people from moving around in the scorching sun between 12 noon and 3 pm as temperatures are likely to remain high.

In Hyderabad, the mercury touched 42.8ºC on April 30, 2000, but it has never crossed 41.6ºC in the intervening eight years in the corresponding month.

Weathermen also blamed the failure of monsoon in 2009 for high temperature in April. Normally, mercury touches around 41-42ºC only in May.

But this year, the summer has peaked in mid-April itself. With the lack of sufficient moisture in the atmosphere, temperatures have gone up in Hyderabad and other parts of the state.

-Anubha K. Singh