Mercury may reach 39 degrees by month-end: Officials

With the national capital already sizzling due to a significant rise in the mercury, making March the hottest in the last six years, the Met department says the temperature could rise to 39 degrees Celsius by the end of month.On Saturday, the maximum temperature in Delhi was 35 degree Celsius, four notches above the season's average. This is expected to rise by four degrees by the end of March.
According to IMD officials, western disturbance -- a storm system originating in the Caspian Sea and the Mediterranean Sea which causes rain and snowfall in the northwest of the Indian subcontinent and mallows down weather -- would keep the temperature well around 38 or 39 degrees, which may have further increased otherwise.
According to the IMD archives, highest maximum temperature in 2016, 2015 and 2012 was 37 degrees. In 2014 it was 34 degrees, 2013 it as 35 degrees and in 2011 it was 36 degree Celsius.