India, April 27 -- Large parts of Maharashtra continued to reel under severe heatwave conditions on Saturday, with Pune and several districts in the Vidarbha region recording the highest daytime temperatures of the summer season so far.

In Pune, the India Meteorological Department's (IMD's) Shivajinagar observatory recorded a maximum temperature of 41.8degC - the highest this summer, and 3.1degC above normal. The Lohegaon observatory registered an even higher 42.7degC, marking the second consecutive day the area crossed the 42degC mark.

Intense heat gripped almost the entire Pune district, with at least 12 weather monitoring stations across urban and rural areas recording temperatures of 40degC or above. Among them, Dudulgaon and Shivaj...