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Southwest monsoons sweep across the nation

Heavy rain is likely to occur at isolated places in sub-Himalayan West Bengal and Sikkim, coastal Karnataka and Kerala during next 48 hours. The southwest monsoon has been active in sub-Himalayan West Bengal and Sikkim and Kerala.

Rain or thundershowers have occurred at most of the places in the Andaman and Nicobar islands and Himachal Pradesh, many places in Lakshadweep, a few places in Assam and Meghalaya, Jammu and Kashmir, east Madhya Pradesh, Konkan and Goa, coastal and south interior Karnataka and a few isolated places in plains of west Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Punjab, Vidarbha, coastal Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu.

Very light rain has also occurred over hills of west Uttar Pradesh and west Madhya Pradesh. Mainly dry weather prevailed over the rest of the country.

Rain or thundershowers are likely to occur at most places in the Andaman and Nicobar islands, sub-Himalayan West Bengal, Sikkim, coastal Karnataka and Kerala, at many places in Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, south Konkan, Goa and Lakshadweep, at a few places in Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura, Haryana and south interior karnataka, and at isolated places in Uttar Pradesh, north Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, south madhya Maharashtra, Marathwada, Vidarbha, Tamil Nadu and north interior Karnataka. Mainly dry weather will prevail over the rest of the country.

Day temperatures were appreciably above normal in southwest Rajasthan and were above normal in remaining parts of Gujarat. They were appreciably to markedly below normal in Haryana, Punjab and north Rajasthan.

	Temperatures (Degrees C)		Rainfall (mm)
City	Maximum	Minimum	Past 24 Hours	Since June 1
Ahmedabad	41 (+3)	28 (+1)	0	48 (+16)
Allahabad	37 (-3)	29 (0)	0	53 (+27)
Amritsar	37 (-3)	25 (0)	0	11 (-7)
Aurangabad	32 (-3)	23 (0)	0	144 (+78)
Bangalore	29 (0)	21 (+1)	-	58 (+7)
Bhopal	32 (-5)	25 (0)	2	46 (-4)
Bhubaneshwar	36 (+3)	28 (+2)	0	73 (-30)
Bombay	33 (+1)	28 (+2)	0	72 (-141)
Calcutta	37 (+3)	29 (+2)	0	26 (-129)
Chandigarh	29 (-10)	22 (-4)	48	146 (+122)
Dehradun	27 (-8)	22 (-2)	2	92 (+28)
Guwahati	34 (+3)	27 (+2)	0	28 (-116)
Hyderabad	35 (+1)	26 (+2)	0	13 (-33)
Indore	33 (-3)	25 (+1)	0	80 (+26)
Jaipur	36 (-3)	26 (-1)	0	18 (-3)
Lucknow	37 (-2)	28 (0)	0	13 (-8)
Madras	39 (+2)	26 (-2)	2	15 (-14)
Nagpur	23 (-7)	25 (-2)	-	38 (-38)
New Delhi	32 (-8)	26 (-3)	-	72 (+49)
Patna	41 (+4)	30 (+3)	0	0 (-66)
Panjim	30 (0)	25 (+1)	1	232 (-163)
Pune	32 (0)	23 (0)	0	70 (+18)
Raipur	34 (-3)	23 (-4)	6	19 (-71)
Shimla	19 (-5)	17 (+1)	7	183 (+119)
Srinagar	28 (-1)	15 (+1)	0	23 (0)
Thiruvananthapuram	31 (+2)	24 (0)	4	158 (-71)
Varanasi	35 (+1)	28 (+1)	0	74 (+19)
Vishakhapatnam	39 (0)	29 (+1)	0	3 (-28)

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