Mostly clear weather is indicated for the western peninsular city of Pune, venue for tonight’s IPL cricket game.
Delhi Daredevils will take on Kolkata Knight Riders in the match scheduled to begin at 8 p.m. at the Subrata Roy stadium here.
This will be the first playoff in IPL5, which will decide one finalist for the tournament.
India Meteorological Department (IMD) has said that day temperatures might peak to 40 deg Celsius, before falling to 22 deg Celsius during the night.
Humidity levels would also track a similar trajectory, setting up tolerable conditions for play towards late evening.
Westerly to northwesterly winds might prevail through the day, aided by an anti-cyclone circulation out in the central Arabian Sea.
Elsewhere in adjoining central India, heat wave conditions are beginning to build.