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Rains lash the Indian subcontinent

The southwest monsoon has been active in Assam and Meghalaya. Rain or thundershowers have occurred at many places in Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura, madhya Maharashtra, Kerala and at a few places in sub-Himalayan West Bengal, Sikkim, east Rajasthan, Lakshadweep, east Madhya Pradesh, Rayalaseema, Tamil Nadu and coastal and north interior Karnataka.

Very light rain has also occurred at isolated places in Haryana and coastal Andhra Pradesh. Dry weather prevailed over the rest of the country.

Rain or thundershowers are likely to occur at most places in Rajasthan, Gujarat, Konkan, Goa, coastal Karnataka, Kerala, the Andaman and Nicobar islands, Arunchal Pradesh, Assam, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura, sub-Himalayan West Bengal and Sikkim, the plains of west Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and Lakshadweep.

Rains will also occur at a few places in hills of west Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, west Madhya Pradesh, south madhya Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and interior Karnataka and at isolated places over the rest of the country. In Bihar, though, the weather will be mainly dry.

Severe heat wave conditions prevailed in some parts of Gangetic West Bengal, Orissa, the Bihar plateau and coastal Andhra Pradesh. Heat wave conditions also prevailed in some parts of the Bihar plains, east Uttar Pradesh and east Madhya Pradesh.

Day temperatures were appreciably above normal in some parts of north interior Karnataka and in the remaining parts of coastal Andhra Pradesh. Temperatures were above normal in some parts of the plains of west Uttar Pradesh, Vidarbha, Telangana, Rayalaseema and in remaining parts of Orissa.

They were markedly below normal in west Rajasthan, Gujarat and Kutch and were appreciably below normal in some parts of Haryana, Punjab, east Madhya Pradesh and Saurashtra. They were normal over the rest of the country.

	Temperatures (Degrees C)
City	Maximum	Minimum
Agartala	32 (0)	25 (0)
Allahabad	44(+3)	33(+4)
Amritsar	40(-1)	28(+3)
Ahmedabad	30 (-9)	25 (-2)
Bangalore	32 (+2)	22 (+2)
Bhopal	39 (+1)	27 (+1)
Bareilly	42 (+2)	30 (+3)
Bhubaneshwar	44 (+8)	26 (0)
Bombay	33 (+1)	26 (-1)
Calcutta	41 (+6)	31(+4)
Chandigarh	39 (-1)	30 (+4)
Dibrugarh	24 (-6)	22 (-2)
Gangtok	23 (0)	8 (+2)
Guwahati	30 (-1)	23 (-2)
Gadag	31 (-1)	22 (0)
Indore	39 (+2)	24 (-1)
Imphal	25 (-4)	20 (-1)
Jaipur	36 (-4)	26 (-1)
Jodhpur	30 (-11)	20 (-9)
Jabalpur	40 (+1)	30 (+4)
Lucknow	42 (+2)	29 (+2)
Madras	42 (+4)	28 (0)
Mangalore	32 (+2)	25 (+2)
Nagpur	43 (+3)	29 (+2)
New Delhi	40 (-1)	29 (0)
Patna	44 (+6)	30 (+3)
Panaji	32 (+1)	26 (+1)
Pune	29 (-4)	23 (0)
Port Blair	31 (+2)	23 (-1)
Rajkot	28 (-11)	25 (-1)
Santan	39 (-1)	30 (+2)
Shillong	26 (+2)	20 (+3)
Srinagar	27 (-2)	13 (-1)
Varanasi	43 (+3)	30 (+2)

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