Shimla: With the mercury touching 32.4 degree Celsius, Shimla recorded its highest temperature in 170 years of recorded temperature readings today, surpassing an earlier high of 31.7 degree Celsius recorded on 20 May, 2004.
“At 32.4 degree Celsius, a departure of 8.3 Celsius from normal, it is the highest temperature ever recorded by Shimla meteorological station,” said Manmohan Singh, director of the station. The earlier record high was 31.7 degree Celsius recorded on 20th May, 2004, he added.
The met director disclosed that the Shimla weather observatory was established in 1840 at the Viceregal Lodge that now houses the Indian Institute of Advance Studies. “It’s only temperature recordings of the last twenty years that new highs are being made,” he said. On Wednesday, the day’s high was recorded at 30.9 degree Celsius.
Later the weather station was shifted to the Central Telegraph Office (CTO) building on The Mall and before the observatory was shifted to Central Potato Research Institute- Bamloie in 1989, which is at a lower altitude location, the highest temperature recorded in the city at the older station was 30.6 degree Celsius on 13th June, 1932, Manmohan Singh disclosed.Read Full Story
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