Hot spell broken by wind, rain, more on the way: Met

Ludhiana: Although residents sweated it out for most of the day with temperature crossing the 40 degrees mark, the evening brought overcast skies, wind and lighting. It drizzled in some parts of the city including Ferozepur Road, Model Town, Pakhowal road, Sarabha Nagar etc.
The Met department said the city is likely to witness rainfall in the next few days as well. The weastherman predicted partly cloudy sky with one or two spells of rain or thundershowers for Sunday and Monday.
The forecast for Tuesday and Wednesday is generally cloudy sky with one or two spells of rain or thundershowers. The maximum temperature is expected to drop to 38 degrees by Thursday while night temperature might remain around 28 degrees till Wednesday and then fall to 27 degrees on the next day.
The maximum temperature was recorded at 41.6 degrees Celsius, which is 3.3 degrees above normal and 1.7 degrees more than that of the previous day. The minimum temperature was recorded at 28.1 degrees Celsius, which was 2.5 degrees above normal and 2.3 degrees more than that of the previous day.