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Rain toll reaches 16 in Tamil Nadu

The toll in rain-related incidents in Tamil Nadu has risen to 16, with 12 more deaths reported on Friday.

A report from Perambalur said three people, two of them women, were washed away in flash floods at Mettur village. A couple was electrocuted at Tillaipuram near Namakkal, and a 55-year-old man was killed in a wall-collapse near Ulundurpet.

In Salem, a 30-year-old-man died of the cold, and a 35-year-old cyclist was run over by a bus after he slipped and fell in rain water.

In Madurai, where the river Vaigai is in spate, a 45-year-old man was washed away.

A report from Cuddalore said three people, including two children, were washed away in floods.

In Tanjavur, a woman drowned in a tank.

The weather office, meanwhile, has forecast heavy rains at isolated places in Tamil Nadu, Kerala and lakshadweep during the next 48 hours.

Cold wave conditions prevailed in Kashmir and south Rajasthan.

Night temperatures were appreciably below normal in north central Maharashtra, Vidarbha and in parts of Saurashtra and Kutch, and were below normal in parts of northeast Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and south central Maharashtra.

They were appreciably above normal in parts of south Knkan and Goa, coastal Andhra Pradesh, Rayalaseema, Tamil Nadu, south interior Karnataka, and above normal in parts of Assam, Meghalaya, Bihar plains, Himachal Pradesh and Kerala.

They were normal over the rest of the country outside Arunachal Ppradesh and sub-Himalayan West Bengal and Sikkim from where the data were sparse.

Rain or thundershowers occurred at many places in Lakshadweep, and at a few places in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Rayalaseema, south interior Karnataka, Kerala and at isolated places in Assam and Meghalaya.

Mainly dry weather prevailed over the rest of the country.

Rain or thundershowers are likely at most places in Tamil Nadu, at many places in Kerala, Lakshadweep, at a few places in Rayalaseema and coastal and south interior Karnataka, and at isolated places in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands and south coastal Andhra Pradesh.

Mainly dry weather will prevail over the rest of the country.

 
 
                       Temperatures (deg C)

		       Max 	       Min


Agartala               28(+1)        14(+2)
Ahmedabad              30            10(-3)
Allahabud              27(+2)        11(+1)
Amritsar               23(+1)         6(+2)
Aurangabad             27(-1)         9(-2)
Bangalore              22(-4)        19(+3)
Bareilly               24(-1)        11(+1)
Bhopal                 28(+2)        10(-1)
Bhubaneshwar           29(+1)        16
Bombay                 35(+4)        22(+1)
Calcutta               28(+1)        18(+3)
Dehra Dun              23(+1)         9(+1)
Dibrugarh              24            11(+1)
Gadag                  25(-4)        20(+3)
Gangtok                14(-2)         7(+1)
Guwahati               26(+1)        14(+1)
Hyderabad              26(-2)        16(+2)
Imphal                 25(+2)         7(+1)
Indore                 29(+2)         9(-1)
Jabalpur               26(+1)         9(+2)
Jaipur                 28(+3)         8(-2)
Jodhpur                31(+3)         6(-5)
Kanyakumari            27(-3)        23(-1)
Lucknow                27(+2)         9(+1)
Madras                 27(-1)        25(+4)
Madurai                29(-1)        22(+2)
Mangalore              32            23(+2)
Minicoy                29(-1)        24(+1)
Nagpur                 29             8(-4)
New Delhi              26(+2)         8(-1)
Panaji                 31(-2)        24(+3)
Patna                  25            13(+2)
Pune                   29             9(-2)
Port Blair             30(+1)        24(+1)
Rajkot                 31(+1)        16(+3)
Raipur                 27(-1)        11(-3)
Satna                  28(+2)         9(+2)
Shillong               16(-1)         8(+3)
Shimla                 18(+6)         7(+2)
Srinagar                8(-2)        -6(-4)
Thiruvananthapuram     27(-4)        23(+2)
Tiruchirapalli         29            23(+1)
Vishakhapatnam         30(+2)        20(+1)

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