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Monsoon hits Saurashtra, Kutch... hard!

Heavy rains are likely at isolated places in sub-Himalayan West Bengal, Sikkim, south Rajasthan, Gujarat, Konkan, Goa, coastal Karnataka and Kerala during the next 48 hours.

The Southwest monsoon has been vigorous in Saurashtra and Kutch and active in sub-Himalayan West Bengal and Sikkim.

Rain or thundershowers have occurred at most places in Konkan and Goa and Kerala, at many places in Assam, Meghalaya, Orissa, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Gujarat region, central Maharashtra and coastal Karnataka, at a few places in Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura, Bihar plains, the hills of west Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Vidarbha, and at isolated places in Gangetic West Bengal, Haryana, coastal Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Tamil Nadu and interior Karnataka.

Very light rain also occurred at isolated places in Marathwada and Rayalaseema.

Mainly dry weather prevailed over the rest of the country.

Rain or thundershowers are likely at many places in sub-Himalayan West Bengal, Sikkim, the hills of west Uttar Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, south Rajasthan, Gujarat, Konkan and Goa, coastal Karnataka and Kerala, at a few places in Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura, Gangetic West Bengal, Orissa, Bihar, plains of Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Punjab, north Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Central Maharashtra, Marathwada, Vidarbha, coastal Andhra Pradesh, interior Karnataka and Lakshadweep, and at isolated places over the rest of the country.

Day temperatures were appreciably above normal in parts of northwest Rajasthan.

They were appreciably below normal in parts of Punjab and were below normal in parts of Haryana.

                  Temperature (deg C)     Rainfall (mm)

	          max        min         last      since 
                                        24 hours  June 1


Agartala          33(+2)     26(+1)        1     116(-265)
Ahmedabad         29(-8)     25(-2)        7     106(+64)
Allahabad         34(-5)     29            0      64(+28)
Amritsar          31(-9)     22(-4)        4      70(+48)
Aurangabad        30(-4)     22(-1)        1     171(+82)
Bangalore         28         21(+1)        0      75(+19)
Bareilly          39(+1)     28(+1)        0      41(-11)
Bhopal            29(-7)     24(-1)        0      92(+25)
Bhubaneswar       33(-2)     25(-1)       19    143(+23)
Bombay            30(-2)     25(-1)        0     261(-21)
Calcutta          34         27            0     195(+6)
Chandigarh        34(-5)     23(-3)       57
Dehra Dun         30(-5)     23(-1)       10    203(+119)
Dibrugarh         30(-1)     24           30    199(-75)
Gadag             30         22            -      16(-33)
Gangtok           21(-2)     17(+1)       41    360(-127)
Guwahati          34(+3)     25           23     83(-168)
Hyderabad         32(-1)     23(-1)        -      35(-23)
Imphal            30(+1)     22(+1)        5      95(-140)
Indore            27(-8)     23(-1)        2     215(+144)
Jabalpur          30(-6)     25(-1)        2     108(+38)
Jaipur            40(+1)     25(-2)        1       9(-18)
Jodhpur           41(+1)     22(-6)       55     56(+40)
Kanyakumari       29(-1)     25(+1)        0     101(+35)
Lucknow           40(+2)     29(+1)        0       3(-26)
Madras            37         28(+1)        0     103(+65)
Madurai           38(+2)     26(+1)        0       6(-38)
Mangalore         30(+1)     23           60    989(+446)
Minicoy           32(+2)     25            0     312(+91)
Nagpur            29(-8)     25(-1)       12     92(-6)
New Delhi         38(-1)     30(+1)        0      40(+11)
Panjim            30         25(+1)       13   1197(+714)
Patna             36         27           38     77(-7)
Poona             28(-3)     23            7      71(+8)
Port Blair        29         23(-1)        0     338(-43)
Rajkot            29(-8)     25(-1)        3      77(+22)
Raipur            30(-6)     26            1      92(-23)
Satna             38         28            0      49(0)
Simla             23(-1)     15(-1)       39     71(-10)
Srinagar          34(+4)     15            3      26(0)
Trivandrum        30(+1)     24(+1)        3     370(+112)
Tiruchirapalli    37(+1)     27(+1)        0      31(0)
Visakhapatnam     31(-2)     27            0     127(+61)

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