With Mumbai recording a maximum daytime temperature of 32.2 degrees and minimum of 23.4 degrees, Mumbaikars can only expect a rise in mercury levels. Daytime temperatures in April have gone as high as 39 degrees in 2014 and experts have suggested that people, especially children, stay indoors when the sun is at its peak. The IMD has predicted maximum temperatures to be around 34 degrees in the coming week.

The city has been sweating right from the onset of March this year, with daytime temperatures crossing the 30 degrees mark. March 25 had mercury hit the 40 degrees mark, close to the second-hottest March day ever. It was March 17, 2011 when the maximum temperature recorded a whopping 41 degrees. However. March 14, 1952 continues to be the hottest March day, standing tall at 42.2 degrees.