The heatwave is expected to abate from Monday under the influence of a western disturbance, which is likely to affect northwest India from the night of May 1, IMD said.
Apart from the heatwave forecast, IMD scientist RK Jenamani also informed that northern India will likely experience a dust storm on April 29.
Northwest India has been recording higher than normal temperatures since March last week, with weather experts attributing it to absence of active Western Disturbances.
The weatherman has predicted a mainly clear sky during the day.
The impact of the heatwave was most seen in Delhi on April 9, 10, and 11. It was the highest in the first 15 days in the last 72 years.
Delhi on Monday recorded a maximum temperature of 42.6 degrees Celsius, the highest in April in five years, according to the India Meteorological Department (IMD).
According to IMD, Delhi sizzled at 42.4 degree Celsius on Apr 9, which has been the hottest day in five years.
Heat wave conditions are likely to continue in the city for next four-five days, the weather office said.
IMD officials had said a prolonged dry spell has led to severe hot weather conditions in northwest India.
An IMD official told that in the past 120 yrs, such a dry March month was only seen 12 times. The last time it was in 2018, when the city received no rain during the month of March in Delhi.
The maximum temperatures were above normal by 4.5 degrees over most parts of Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Chandigarh, Delhi, Punjab, and Rajasthan.
Around 100 personnel of NDRF have been deployed and six relief camps opened in various parts of the islands as a precautionary measure, the officials said.
Fishermen have been advised to return from sea. Indian Army, Navy, Air Force and Indian Coast Guard on stand by.
The heatwave condition is likely to prevail at a few places in Narmadapuram, Ratlam, Shajapur, Khargone, Dhar, Khandwa, Damoh, Chhattarpur, and Rajgarh districts, for the next two days, the official said.
Once the system intensifies into a cyclone, it will be named Asani, which is a name suggested by Sri Lanka.low pressure area brewing over southwest Indian Ocean
The IMD also said Coastal Karnataka, Southwest Rajasthan and Gujarat region will also experience the heatwave.
The maximum temperature on Friday settled at 29.6 degrees Celsius, two notches above normal.
According to the National Weather Forecasting Centre (NWFC), the wind confluence and a trough in easterlies run from southeast Arabian Sea off Kerala coast to Konkan coast in lower tropospheric levels.
Meanwhile, India Meteorological Department stated that a depression over the southwest Bay of Bengal lay centered at 8:30 am of Friday near 8.9 degrees of North/ 82.9 degrees of East about 390Km southeast of Nagappattinam (Tamil Nadu) is likely to intensify further into a deep depression during next twelve hours.
The IMD has warned of strong winds (45-55 km/hr gusting to an almost cyclonic 65 km/hr) over the south-west and adjoining west-central Bay of Bengal and along and off the Tamil Nadu-South Andhra Pradesh coasts and the Gulf of Mannar on Thursday.
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