India, April 27 -- LUCKNOW Amidst a decline in temperatures across UP after nine consecutive days of blistering heat, the Bundelkhand region continued to sizzle on Monday with Banda again emerging the hottest in the country at 47.6degC, also surging past its all-time high for April. The mercury surpassed its previous highest recorded value of 47.4degC on April 25 this year.

"Today, heatwave conditions were confined to Jhansi (45.2 degrees), Orai (44.2 degrees) and Banda in the Bundelkhand region of south UP," said Atul Kumar Singh, a senior scientist at Lucknow Met office.

Under the influence of moist easterly winds, arising from an east-west trough extending from a cyclonic circulation over the lower troposphere in the northwestern par...