Five people have died of heat stroke in Maharashtra and 40-plus temperatures have led to heat wave warning in parts of the state. Districts in central and north Maharashtra are worst affected.<br/><br/>Village Bhira in Raigad district recorded high temperature at 46.5 degrees on Tuesday. The Indian Meteorological Department says it will send a team to verify it. Akola recorded 44.1 degrees Celsius and Wardha, Nagpur and Chandrapur have recorded 43 degrees.<br/><br/>Many other parts of India are suffering record temperatures at the start of summer.<br/><br/>Barmer in Rajasthan recorded a high of 43.4 degrees Celsius while Narnaul in Haryana sizzled at 42 degrees, nine degrees above normal.<br/><br/>The temperature in Ludhiana in Punjab is seven degrees above normal.<br/><br/>In Uttar Pradesh, the maximum temperature crossed 40 degrees in Varanasi, Allahabad, Hamirpur and Agra.<br/><br/>It is the hottest day of the year yet in Delhi, with the temperature six degrees above normal at 38.2 degrees Celsius.<br/><br/>The temperature in Uttarakhand's capital, Dehradun as well as Srinagar has been recorded much above the normal for this part of the year.<br/><br/>In the past few days, it has been hotter than 40 degrees in Rayalaseema region of Andhra Pradesh.<br/><br/>Heat wave conditions remain mainly in North Gujarat region. Met office has predicted similar weather conditions in these regions for the next 2-3 days.