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North remains in the grip of heat

Severe heat wave conditions prevailed in parts of Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Punjab and north Rajasthan.

Heat wave conditions also prevailed in interior Orissa, Bihar, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, south Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Vidarbha, Telangana and some parts of Gangetic West Bengal, coastal Andhra Pradesh and the remaining parts of Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and Punjab.

Day temperatures were appreciably above normal in Manipur and north Tamil Nadu and above normal in some parts of Saurashtra, Kutch and north interior Karnataka.

Day temperatures were appreciably below normal in Assam and Meghalaya and below normal in some parts of sub-Himalayan West Bengal, Sikkim and Kerala.

They were normal in the rest of the country barring Arunachal Pradesh from where data were sparse.

Rain or thundershowers fell at a few places in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Assam, Meghalaya, sub-Himalayan West Bengal, Sikkim and Kerala.

Very light rain also fell at isolated places in Rayalaseema.

Mainly dry weather prevailed over the rest of the country.

Rain or thundershowers are likely to fall at many places in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Arunachal Pradesh, sub-Himalayan West Bengal and Sikkim, at a few places in Assam and Meghalaya, and at isolated places in Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura, Gangetic West Bengal, Jammu and Kashmir, Tamil Nadu, south interior Karnataka, Kerala and Lakshadweep.

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

                      Temperatures (deg C)

	                 Max          Min

Agartala                36(+1)        27(+3)
Ahmedabad               41(+1)        27(+3)
Allahabad               45(+5)        28(+4)
Amritsar                44(+8)        21(+3)
Aurangabad              40(+1)        24(+1)
Bangalore               34(+1)        22(+1)
Bareilly                45(+6)        26(+3)
Bhopal                  43(+4)        28(+5)
Bhubaneswar             37(-1)        28(+2)
Bombay                  32(-1)        26
Calcutta                33(-3)        29(+3)
Chandigarh              42(+6)        24(+3)
Dehra Dun               40(+6)        22(+3)
Dibrugarh               22(-7)        20
Gadag                   39(+2)        22(-1)
Gangtok                 22            15(+2)
Guwahati                31(-1)        22(+1)
Hyderabad               41(+3)        29(+4)
Indore                  43(+4)        24(+2)
Imphal                  33(+3)        22(+5)
Jaipur                  44(+6)        28(+5)
Jodhpur                 44(+4)        27(+3)
Jabalpur                43(+4)        28(+6)
Kanyakumari             30(-2)        25(-1)
Lucknow                 45(+5)        27(+5)
Madras                  40(+4)        27
Madurai                 38(+2)        26(+1)
Mangalore               35(+2)        25
Minicoy                 33(+2)        27(+1)
Nagpur                  45(+4)        31(+5)
New Delhi               43(+5)        26(+3)
Panjim                  32(-1)        26
Poona                   36(-1)        21
Port Blair              29(-3)        23(-1)
Raipur                  44(+3)        26(-1)
Rajkot                  42(+2)        24(+1)
Satna                   44(+4)        26(+2)
Shillong                27(+3)        16(+1)
Simla                   28(+7)        20(+7)
Srinagar                29(+8)        10(+1)
Tiruchirapalli          37            27(+1)
Trivandrum              31(-1)        25
Varanasi                45(+5)        26(+2)
Visakhapatnam           36(+3)        30(+3)

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