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Heavy rains forecast in West Bengal, Orissa

Heavy rains are likely to occur at isolated places in West Bengal, Sikkim, Orissa and east Madhya Pradesh in the next 48 hours.

Rain or thundershowers are likely to occur at many places in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Assam, Meghalaya, West Bengal, Sikkim, Orissa and east Madhya Pradesh, at a few places in Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura, Bihar, coastal Andhra Pradesh, and Tamil Nadu, and at isolated places in east Uttar Pradesh, Rayalaseema, Kerala and Lakshadweep.

Isolated light rain is also likely in Maharashtra and Goa. Mainly dry weather will prevail over the rest of the country.

Night temperatures were below normal in Rayalaseema and some parts of Gujarat region, Tamil Nadu and Kerala. They were appreciably above normal in Gangetic West Bengal, east Uttar Pradesh, east Madhya Pradesh, Vidarbha, and some parts of east Rajasthan, and were above normal in Bihar, Orissa, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Kashmir, west Rajasthan, west Madhya Pradesh, Saurashtra and some parts of coastal Andhra Pradesh. They were normal in the rest of the country.

Day temperatures were appreciably above normal in some parts of Himachal Pradesh and south coastal Andhra Pradesh. They were above normal in north coastal Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, and parts of Gangetic West Bengal, east Uttar Pradesh, and Kashmir. They were markedly below normal in Assam and Meghalaya and appreciably below normal in the Bihar plains, west Rajasthan and Gujarat.

Day temperatures were below normal in sub-Himalayan West Bengal, Sikkim, Haryana, east Rajasthan, Saurashtra, Kutch central Maharashtra, north interior Karnataka and some parts of Madhya Pradesh. They were normal in the rest of the country outside Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura and Telangana from where data was sparse.

 
                        Temperatures (deg C)    

                        Max             Min    


Agartala               --              23(+1)
Ahmedabad              32(-4)          19(-2)
Allahabad              35(+3)          25(+5)
Amritsar               33(+2)          15(-1)
Aurangabad             28(-3)          21(+4)
Bangalore              28(+1)          17(-2)
Bareilly               33(+1)          --
Bhopal                 30(-1)          20(+3)
Bhubaneswar            31              25(+2)
Bombay                 31(-1)          24
Calcutta               32              26(+3)
Chandigarh             30              19(+3)
Dehra dun              31(+3)          18(+3)
Dibrugarh              24(-5)          20
Gadag                  28(-3)          19(-1)
Gangtok                22              --
Guwahati               24(-6)          22
Hyderabad              30              19
Imphal                 25(-2)          19(+2)
Indore                 32(+1)          19(+2)
Jabalpur               30              22(+5)
Jaipur                 31(-2)          19(+1)
Kanyakumari            31(+1)          25(+1)
Lucknow                34(+3)          21(+3)
Madras                 32(+1)          26(+2)
Madurai                34(+1)          23(-1)
Mangalore              31(+1)          21(-2)
Nagpur                 31(-1)          24(+5)
New Delhi              31(-2)          20(+2)
Panjim                 30(-1)          24(+1)
Patna                  28(-3)          23(+2)
Pune                   29(-2)          17(-1)
Raipur                 28(-3)          21
Rajkot                 32(-3)          22(+2)
Satna                  33(+1)          22(+4)
Shillong               19(-2)          16(+4)
Shimla                 24(+6)          13(+3)
Srinagar               25(+3)          7(+2)
Tiruchirapalli         34(+2)          24
Trivandrum             32(+2)          22(-1)
Varanasi               34(+2)          25(+5)
Visakhapatnam          33(+2)          26(+2)

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