For the first time in the season, the mercury touched the 43 degrees Celsius mark in Kalaburagi as Hyderabad Karnataka and Bombay Karnataka regions continued to sizzle under severe heat wave conditions as per the observations recorded by India Meteorological Department at 8.30 a.m. on Thursday.

For the sixth day in a row, Kalaburagi recorded the State’s highest maximum temperature of 43 degrees Celsius, which was 4 degrees Celsius more than the temperature recorded on the same day last year.

Day temperatures continued to be oppressive in other parts of the region with Raichur and Bidar recording an identical 41degrees Celsius maximum temperature.

The temperature recorded in Bidar was 5 degrees Celsius more than the temperature recorded on the same day last year. In Raichur, it was 2 degrees Celsius more than the temperature recorded last year the same day.

The department said that the maximum temperature was above normal in most places in interior and North Interior Karnataka and in a few places in coastal Karnataka. The minimum temperature was also above normal at many places in South Interior Karnataka and in coastal and North Interior Karnataka.

The maximum temperature continued to rise in Koppal which recorded a maximum temperature of 40 degrees Celsius, Gadag and Bagalkot which recorded a maximum temperature of 39 degrees Celsius and Belagavi Airport which recorded a maximum temperature of 38 degrees Celsius.

Haveri and Belagavi city recorded a maximum temperature of 37 degrees Celsius each.

There was no respite from the heat wave conditions even during the night in the Hyderabad Karnataka region with Kalaburagi and Raichur recording a minimum temperature of 27 degrees Celsius, which was the highest in the State. Bidar and Koppal recorded a minimum temperature of 24 degrees Celsius and Gadag recorded a minimum temperature of 23 degrees Celsius.

The minimum temperature recorded in Raichur was 4 degrees Celsius more than the temperature recorded on the same day last year and it was 3 degrees Celsius more than the previous year’s temperature in Kalaburagi.