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After cold wave, it's a heat wave now in U.P.

LUCKNOW: High temperatures across Uttar Pradesh may signify an early start of a scorching summer.

The mercury has soared to a 43-year high in the State capital. Lucknow recorded a day time temperature of 35.2 degree celsius yesterday, the highest for any February day as against a maximum temperature of 34.2 degree celsius registered on February 16, 1963, State Met Director R K Verma told UNI here today.

Generally, pleasant temperatures hovering between 26-28 degrees has been experienced in February across the state for the last many years.The spring climate this year has undergone a dramatic change with hot westerlies from Rajasthan and Arabian Sea causing the abnormal rise in maximum temperatures in the State, Mr Verma said. - UNI

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