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Rains claim 20 lives in Kerala

Heavy rains lashed Kerala for the fifth consecutive day, claiming at least 20 lives and causing widespread damage to property and crops.

Most rivers are in spate. Hundreds of families have been evacuated.

Five deaths each were reported in Thiruvananthapuram and Malappuram districts, four in Pathanamthitta, three in Ernakulam, two in Kollam and one in Thrissur.

Meanwhile, heavy rainfall is likely at isolated places in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Konkan and Goa, south central Maharashtra, coastal Andhra Pradesh, interior Karnataka and Lakshadweep during the next 48 hours.

Rain or thundershowers are likely at a few places in Telangana, Rayalaseema and Tamil Nadu, and at isolated places in Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Meghalaya, sub-himalayan West Bengal, Sikkim and north central Maharashtra.

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

Besides Kerala, the Southwest monsoon has also been active in coastal Andhra Pradesh.

Rain or thundershowers occurred at most places in south interior Karnataka, at many places in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Konkan and Goa, Rayalaseema, coastal Karnataka and Lakshadweep, at a few places in sub-Himalayan West Bengal, Sikkim, Saurashtra and Kutch, Central Maharashtra, Telangana, Tamil Nadu and north interior Karnataka, and at isolated places in Orissa and Madhya Pradesh.

Very light rain also occurred at isolated places in Gujarat and Vidarbha.

Mainly dry weather prevailed over the rest of the country.

 
                       Temperatures (deg C)    

                        Max             Min    

Agartala               34(+3)        25(+2)
Allahabad              36(+3)        27(+5)
Amritsar               34(+1)        18
Ahmedabad              36            26(+4)
Aurangabad             32(+1)        23(+4)
Bangalore              28            20(+1)
Bhopal                 33(+2)        23(+4)
Bareilly               35(+2)        24(+3)
Bhubaneswar           33(+2)        25(+1)
Bombay                 34(+2)        25
Calcutta               35(+3)        27(+2)
Chandigarh             34(+3)        19(+1)
Dehra Dun              31(+2)        20(+3)
Gadag                  27(-4)        22(+2)
Hyderabad              29(-1)        23(+3)
Indore                 34(+3)        22(+4)
Jaipur                 35(+1)        22(+3)
Jodhpur                39(+3)        27(+6)
Jabalpur               34(+4)        24(+5)
Kanyakumari            27(-4)        22(-2)
Lucknow                36(+4)        23(+2)
Madras                 33(+1)        25
Madurai                32(-1)        24
Mangalore              29(-1)        23(-1)
Minicoy                28(-2)        25
Nagpur                 34(+2)        25(+4)
New Delhi              34            21(+1)
Patna                  35(+3)        26(+3)
Panaji                 33(+2)        25(+1)
Pune                   31            22(+3)
Rajkot                 37(+2)        27(+6)
Raipur                 32(+1)        22
Satna                  35(+3)        26(+6)
Shimla                 25(+7)        13(+2)
Srinagar               27(+3)         6(-1)
Tiruchirapalli         32(-1)        25(+1)
Thiruvananthapuram     27(-3)        23
Varanasi               36(+3)        26(+4)
Vishakhapatnam         33(+2)        26(+1)

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