India, March 10 -- On Monday, the city experienced its second heatwave in less than a week. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) weather stations at seven locations revealed that daytime temperature at Ram Mandir touched a whopping 42.5 degrees Celsius, while the maximum temperature at Vikhroli stood at 41.7 degrees Celsius.

On Sunday, the IMD had issued a heatwave or severe heatwave warning in isolated pockets of the city, Thane, Palghar and Raigad for Monday, and the warning stays applicable till 8.30am on Tuesday.

The IMD sounds a 'heatwave' warning when maximum temperatures are over 6 degrees above the normal, and 6.4 degrees Celsius. above normal is classified as severe heatwave.

On Monday, the Santacruz weather stations saw ...