KOLKATA HEAT ALERT

Early summer onset: Doctors issue afternoon heat alert for elderly, kids

The afternoons have started getting warm since the intensity of sunrays is now on the ascent, said weathermen. A bulletin from Regional Meteorological Centre, Alipore, on Sunday said the maximum temperature "rose markedly at one or two places and was appreciably above normal at many places over Gangetic Bengal". Jhargram recorded 39°C on Sunday, the highest maximum in the state.