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Snow in Spiti

The higher reaches of Himachal Pradesh Monday experienced the first snowfall of the season while the lower and mid hills had intermittent rain.

Reports said the peaks of Keylong, headquarters of Lahaul Spiti district, had snowfall since Sunday, leading to cold wave conditions there.

The 13,050-foot Rohtang pass, the access to Lahaul Spiti district, also had snowfall. Mild snowfall occurred on Sarch pass near Shtrundi in Chamba district and the high peaks at Chachul and Bhatmuhan, in the Tissa sector of the district.

The Southwest monsoon, meanwhile, has been vigorous in Vidarbha and active in West Madhya Pradesh and coastal Karnataka.

Rain or thundershowers occurred at most places in Haaryan and Konkan and Goa, at many places in Gangetic West Bengal, Orissa, East Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat region, coastal Andhra Pradesh and Kerala, at a few places in Assam, Meghalaya, Bihar plateau, hills of West Uttar Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, East Rajasthan, madhya Maharashtra, Telangana, Rayalaseema and interior Karnataka, and at isolated places in East Uttar Pradesh, Saurashtra, Kutch and Tamil Nadu.

Very light rain also occurred at isolated places in Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram and Tripura.

Mainly dry weather prevailed over the rest of the country.

Rain or thundershowers are likely to occur at most places in East Rajasthan, West Madhya Pradesh, Konkan and Goa, coastal Karnataka and Kerala, at many places in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, South Uttar Pradesh, East Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat region, madhya Maharashtra, Marathwada and Vidarbha, at a few places in West Bengal, Sikkim, Orissa, Bihar, North Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Andhra Pradesh, interior Karnataka and Lakshadweep, and at isolated places over the rest of the country outside West Rajasthan where the weather will be mainly dry.

 
                  Temperatures (deg c)       Rainfall mm

                      Max         Min     Past     Since 
                                          24 hrs   June 1


Agartala              33(+1)       25        1  1056(-242)
Allahabad             32(-1)       25        25 1024(+203)
Amritsar              34           22(-1)    0  390(-79)
Ahmedabad             35(+2)       26(+2)    0  829(+117)
Aurangabad            30           23(+2)    -  828(+309)
Bangalore             25(-3)       20(++1)   1  802(+419)
Bhopal                29(-1)       23(+1)    38 861(-199)
Bareilly              33           26(+1)    0  1072(+259)
Bhubaneshwar          27(-4)       24(-1)    11 1121(+113)
Calcutta              31(-1)       25(-1)    6  869(-210)
Chandigarh            28(-5)       23(+1)    17 1040(+328)
Bombay                30           26(+1)    26 2004(+332)
Dehra Dun             31(+1)       21        17 2095(+324)
Guwahati              33(+1)       25        -  812(-290)
Gadag                 28(-2)       22(+1)    2  365(+95)
Hyderabad             31(+1)       22        6  566(+67)
Indore                28(-1)       23(+2)    3  678(-98)
Imphal                32(+3)       19(-2)    1  816(+14)
Jaipur                30(-3)       25(++2)   1  448(-49)
Jodhpur               -            26(+2)    0  302(-2)
Jabalpur              29(-1)       24(+1)    7  746(-406)
Kanyakumari           31(+1)       26(+2)    0  148(-94)
Lucknow               32(-1)       25        0  785(+10)
Madras                35(+1)       27(+2)    0  242(-127)
Madurai               36(+1)       25        0  388(+111)
Mahabaleshwar                      17(+1)    32 4229(-1425)
Mangalore             26(-3)       23        88 3370(+113)
Minicoy               32(+3)       26(+1)    0  933(+106)
Nagpur                26(-5)       24(+1)    16 720(-163)
New Delhi             32(-2)       25        1  514(-3)
Patna                 32           25(-1)    0  819(+30)
Panaji                26(-3)       23(-1)    61 2632(+300)
Pune                  29           23(+2)    0  560(+144)
Rajkot                34(+1)       24(+1)    0  474(-66)
Raipur                29(-2)       24(-1)    11 815(-266)
Satna                 30(-1)       24        13 1027(+121)
Shimla                18(-2)       15(+1)    7  767(-314)
Srinagar              29(+1)       12(-1)    0  62(-106)
Shillong              24           15(-2)    0  1179(-144)
Tiruchirapalli        35(+1)       26(+1)    0  327(+100)
Thiruvananthapuram    30           24(+1)    1  809(+34)
Varanasi              32           25        0  1118(+299)
Vishakhapatnam        30(-2)       25(-1)    30 624(+211)

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