Reprint CURRENT SCIENCE Volume 110 Number 10 25 May 2016 Pages 1893–1894 Severe heat wave during May 2015 in Andhra Pradesh B. Hema Malini 1 , K. Lalitha 1 , M. Ganga Raju 1 and Kakani Nageswara Rao 2 1 Department of Geography and 2 Department of Geo-Engineering, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam