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Rain in South India

The well-marked low pressure area formed over the south-east Bay of Bengal yesterday moved westwards and concentrated into a depression centred about 750km south-east of Madras.

It is likely to intensify further and move in a west-northwesterly direction, a special bulletin issued by the Cyclone Warning Centre in Madras today said.

Under the influence of this system, rain or thundershowers are likely to occur at a few places over the coastal districts of Tamil Nadu and south Andhra Pradesh tomorrow. Heavy rain is also likely to occur at one or two places over coastal Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry.

Madras City and suburbs will have partly cloudy skies with rise in minimum temperature. Cloudy weather with one or two spells of rain is forecast for tomorrow.

A cyclonic storm hitting the Tamil Nadu coast in February is very rare. In the last 100 years, it has happened just once, in 1944, off Madras.

Meanwhile, cold-wave conditions prevailed in parts of north-central Maharashtra.

Night temperatures were appreciably below normal in parts of north Madhya Pradesh, Saurashtra and Kutch, while they were below normal in parts of the hills of west Uttar Pradesh, south-west Rajasthan, Gujarat region, south-central Maharashtra, Rayalaseema and Tamil Nadu.

Night temperatures were appreciably above normal in parts of east Madhya Pradesh and above normal in parts of north-west Rajasthan, Vidarbha, coastal Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.

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

Rain or thundershowers occurred at most places in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands and at isolated places in east Uttar Pradesh.

Very light rain also occurred at isolated places in east Madhya Pradesh.

Mainly dry weather prevailed over the rest of the country.

But in the next 24 hours, rain or snow is likely at isolated places in Himachal Pradesh and Jammu & Kashmir.

 
                 Temperatures (deg C)

	         Max        Min


Agartala         27          9(-3)
Ahmedabad        27(-3)     11(-2)
Allahabad        22(-3)     12(+2)
Amritsar         19(-2)      4(-1)
Aurangabad       31         10(-1)
Bangalore        31(+2)     15(-1)
Bhopal           23(-4)     10(-1)
Bhubaneswar      31         15(-2)
Bombay           28(-1)     19(-1)
Calcutta         27(-1)     14(-1)
Dehra Dun        20          5(-2)
Dibrugarh        27(+4)     10(-1)
Gadag            32         19(+1)
Gangtok          16(+2)      6(+1)
Guwahati         27(+2)     11
Hyderabad        31(+1)     18(+2)
Imphal           26(+4)      6(+1)
Indore           26(-1)     10
Jabalpur         23(-3)     13(+3)
Jaipur           21(-3)      8(-1)
Jodhpur          25(-1)     10(-1)
Kanyakumari      32(+1)     24(+1)
Lucknow          20(-4)      8(-1)
Madras           30         21
Madurai          31         18(-3)
Mahabaleshwar    33(+8)     14
Mangalore        31(-2)     21
Minicoy          31(+1)     26(+3)
Nagpur           31         16(+2)
New Delhi        21(-1)      6(-3)
Panjim           30(-2)     18(-1)
Patna            23(-2)     11
Pune             31          9(-2)
Port Blair       31(+2)     21(-1)
Raipur           30(+1)     18(+3)
Rajkot           28(-1)     11(-1)
Shillong         17(+1)      7(+2)
Simla            10(+1)      0(-2)
Srinagar          7(+1)     -2
Tiruchirapalli   31(-1)     21
Trivandrum       32(+1)     22(-1)
Visakhapatnam    31(+2)     20(+2)

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