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Monsoon spreads through the country

Heavy rain is likely to fall at isolated places in sub-Himalayan West Bengal, Sikkim, Konkan, Goa, coastal Karnataka and Kerala in the next 48 hours.

The south-west monsoon has become active in sub-Himalayan West Bengal, Sikkim and Kerala.

Rain or thundershowers fell at many places in the Konkan, Goa, Marathwada, coastal Karnataka and at a few places in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Assam, Meghalaya, Gangetic West Bengal, Orissa, east Madhya Pradesh, Vidarbha, south interior Karnataka, and Lakshadweep, and at isolated places in central Maharashtra, coastal Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Tamil Nadu.

Very light rain fell at isolated places in Punjab and west Madhya Pradesh.

Mainly dry weather prevailed over the rest of the country.

Rain or thundershowers are likely at most places in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Konkan, Goa, coastal Karnataka and Kerala, at many places in sub-Himalayan West Bengal, Sikkim, east Madhya Pradesh, central Maharashtra, Marathwada, Vidarbha and interior Karnataka, at a few places in Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura, Gangetic West Bengal, Orissa, Bihar, the plains of Uttar Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh and Lakshadweep, and at isolated places in the rest of the country barring south Rajasthan, Saurashtra and Kutch where the weather will be mainly dry.

Day temperatures were above normal in some parts of Saurashtra.

They were appreciably below normal in some parts of west Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Punjab, west Rajasthan and west Madhya Pradesh, and below normal in the remaining parts of Haryana and Punjab.

              Temperature (deg C)     Rainfall (mm)

	         max     min       last     since 
                                   24 hours  June 1

Agartala       33(+1)   26(+1)       0     107(-136)
Ahmedabad      31(-8)   29(+2)       0       0(-21)
Amritsar       39(-2)   26(+1)       0      51(+39)
Bangalore      30(+1)   20          11      36(-7)
Bareilly       36(-3)   27           0       2(-25)
Bhopal         34(-4)   26           0      64(+"33)
Bhubaneswar    35(-1)   27           1      63(-20)
Bombay         27(-5)   24(-2)      29     106(-28)
Calcutta       34       28(+1)       0     149(+38)
Chandigarh     37(-3)   28(+2)       0      38(+19)
Dehra Dun      33(-3)   25(+2)       0      48(+5)
Gadag          31(-1)   22           0       7(-27)
Guwahati       34(+3)   27(+2)       0      50(-99)
Hyderabad      34(-1)   24           1      17(-17)
Indore         33(-3)   24(-1)       0      40(+6)
Jabalpur       37(-1)   25(-1)       2      13(-19)
Jaipur         41(+1)   30(+3)       0       9(-4)
Jodhpur        40(-1)   27(-2)       0       0(-7)
Lucknow        37(-2)   26(-1)       0       1(-13)
Madras         37       25(-3)       4      83(+63)
Madurai        38(+2)   27(+1)       0       0(-26)        
Mangalore      28(-1)   23          61     630(+301)
Minicoy        31(+1)   24(-1)       4     299(+145)
Nagpur         37(+1)   25(-2)       1      13(-41)
New Delhi      38(-2)   29           0      40(+25)
Panjim         28(-3)   24(-1)      44     935(+675)
Patna          34(-3)   26(-1)       0      39(-3)
Poona          29(-4)   23           0      52(+12)
Port Blair     28(-1)   22(-2)      17     243(-20)
Raipur         38       25(-2)      15      54(-3)
Rajkot         39(+1)   27(+1)       0       0(-31)
Simla          24       18(+2)       0      29(-16)
Tiruchirapalli 35(-2)   27           0      31(+6)
Trivandrum     27(-3)   24          17     352(+164)
Varanasi       35(-4)   27(-1)       0      24(+1)
Visakhapanam   34       29(+1)       0       9(-29) 

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