Monsoon Hits Southern India, Heatwave Relieved

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Monsoon Hits Southern India, Heatwave Relieved

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Monsoon hit southern India on Sunday, bringing expected rains to the states of Kerala and Tamil Nadu and raising hopes of an immediate respite from a heat wave that has claimed some 2400 lives in the last three weeks.

The Indian Meteorological Department said that monsoon had advanced into most parts of Kerala and parts of Tamil Nadu on Sunday.

In the north, the people at many places in the states of Punjaband Haryana got relief as temperatures declined sharply following some blistering heat for nearly a fortnight.

The maximum temperatures fell by up to 10 degrees to some 35 degrees over that of Saturday in many parts of the north areas, the meteorological department said in a press release.

In the south state of Andhra Pradesh, where 1317 people reportedly died of the prolonged heatwave, drop in mercury coupledwith showers at some areas provided the much-needed relief to the people even as no casualties were reported from anywhere in the state on Sunday.

However, according to the Press Trust of India (PTI), heat conditions continued to sweep the western region of east state of Orissa with Titilagarh, the hottest spot in the east part of the country, registering 48.1 degrees Celsius on Sunday.

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