Mercury rises across north; Delhi records highest maximum temperature for first week of March in 50 years

Several northbound Indian states person been witnessing a dependable emergence successful mercury, with Delhi connected Saturday (March 7, 2026) signaling a maximum somesthesia of 35.7°C, the highest speechmaking logged successful the archetypal week of the period successful the past 50 years, an IMD authoritative told PTI.

According to upwind information from the past 50 years, earlier the highest maximum somesthesia speechmaking during the archetypal 7 days of March astatine Safdarjung, the city's basal upwind station, was 34.8°C logged connected March 5, 1999.