{"id":423732,"date":"2021-07-02T10:17:35","date_gmt":"2021-07-02T04:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=423732"},"modified":"2021-07-02T11:43:00","modified_gmt":"2021-07-02T06:13:00","slug":"heatwave-sweeps-chandigarh-power-cuts-add-to-woes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/heatwave-sweeps-chandigarh-power-cuts-add-to-woes\/","title":{"rendered":"Heatwave sweeps Chandigarh, power cuts add to woes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amid a subdued monsoon, heatwave swept Chandigarh on Wednesday, for the first time this summer. <\/p>\n<p>The maximum temperature was recorded at 40.6\u00b0C, up from Tuesday\u2019s 39.8\u00b0C and five notches above normal.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Indian meteorological department (IMD), in the plains, heatwave is declared if maximum temperature is more than 40\u00b0C and at least 4.5\u00b0C above normal, or if it crosses 45\u00b0C.<\/p>\n<p>Similar conditions are likely to continue in the city on Thursday, though some respite is expected thereon, with a forecast for light to moderate rain up to 30 mm on Friday and Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid a subdued monsoon, heatwave swept Chandigarh on Wednesday, for the first time this summer. The maximum temperature was recorded at 40.6\u00b0C, up from Tuesday\u2019s 39.8\u00b0C and five notches above normal. According to the Indian meteorological department (IMD), in the plains, heatwave is declared if maximum temperature is more than 40\u00b0C and at least 4.5\u00b0C above normal, or if it crosses 45\u00b0C. Similar conditions are likely to continue in the city on Thursday, though some respite is expected thereon, with a forecast for light to moderate rain up to 30 mm on Friday and Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[141,130,236],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-423732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers","category-power-hindustantimes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}