PALAKKAD: Temperatures are rising in Palakkad in the scorching hot summer. The Mundur IRTC recorded a high of 41.5 degrees Celsius yesterday. This is the highest temperature this year. It was 41 degrees on Thursday and rose 0.5 degrees yesterday. The minimum temperature is 27 degrees. Humidity is 37 percent. Temperatures also rose in Pattambi.

It was 36.8 degrees on Thursday and 37.4 degrees yesterday. The minimum temperature was recorded at 25 degrees and the humidity at 90 percent in the morning and 33 percent in the evening. The maximum temperature in Malampuzha dam area was 37.4 degrees. The minimum temperature was 26.3 degrees and the humidity 26 percent.The temperature has reached 40 degrees eight times this month.