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Hot days return to North India

Heat wave conditions prevailed in parts of Orissa, Bihar, the plains of Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh.

Day temperatures were markedly above normal in parts of Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and of east Rajasthan. They were appreciably above normal in Assam, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura, West Bengal and Sikkim, and in parts of hills of west Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and in the remaining parts of east Rajasthan.

They were above normal in parts of central Maharashtra, Karnataka and Kerala.

They were appreciably below normal in Kashmir and in parts of west Rajasthan and Gujarat, and were normal over the rest of the country outside Arunachal Pradesh from where the data were sparse.

Night temperatures were appreciably below normal in parts of Gujarat state and Tamil Nadu, and were below normal in parts of Punjab and west Rajasthan.

They were markedly above normal in parts of Assam, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram and Tripura, the Bihar plateau, the plains of Uttar Pradesh and of Madhya Pradesh, and were appreciably above normal in Gangetic West Bengal, Haryana and in parts of the hills of west Uttar Pradesh, central Maharashtra, Marathwada and of Vidarbha.

They were above normal in parts of Konkan and Goa, coastal Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, coastal Karnataka and of Kerala, and were normal over the rest of the country outside Arunachal Pradesh and sub-Himalayan West Bengal and Sikkim from where the data were sparse.

Rain or snow occurred at isolated places in Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir and hills of west Uttar Pradesh.

Rain or thundershowers occurred at isolated places in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Haryana and Punjab.

Very light rain also occurred at isolated places in Assam and Meghalaya.

Mainly dry weather prevailed over the rest of the country.

Rain or snow is at a few places in Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir and at isolated places in the hills of west Uttar Pradesh.

Rain or thundershowers are at isolated places in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Assam and Meghalaya, sub-Himalayan West Bengal, Sikkim, Punjab, Haryana, south Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Lakshadweep.

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

                    Temperatures (deg C)

                       Max          Min


Agartala               35(+3)       22(+5)
Ahmedabad              33(-1)       17
Amritsar               27(+1)       8(-2)
Aurangabad             36(+1)       19(+3)
Bangalore              34(+2)       17(-1)
Bareilly               35(+6)       19(+5)
Bhopal                 35(+3)       18(+2)
Bhubaneshwar           40(+6)       20(-1)
Bombay                 31           24(+2)
Calcutta               37(+4)       24(+4)
Chandigarh             32(+5)       15(+2)
Dehra Dun              29(+4)       14(+3)
Gadag                  35           22(+2)
Gangtok                21(+3)       13(+5)
Guwahati               33(+4)       18(+3)
Hyderabad              37(+3)       22(+3)
Imphal                 30(+4)       13(+4)
Indore                 37(+5)       17(+3)
Jabalpur               36(+5)       21(+8)
Jaipur                 34(+5)       16(+2)
Jodhpur                30(-2)       13(-3)
Lucknow                36(+5)       20(+6)
Madras                 36(+4)       21(-1)
Madurai                35(+1)       17(-5)
Mangalore              35(+2)       25(+2)
Minicoy                33(+3)       26(+2)
Nagpur                 38(+3)       22(+4)
New Delhi              34(+6)       18(+4)
Panaji                 33(+1)       25(+3)
Port Blair             31           20(-2)
Patna                  36(+5)       20(+4)
Pune                   36(+1)       16(+2)
Rajkot                 31(-3)       15(-1)
Raipur                 38(+5)       22(+3)
Shillong               24(+3)       14(+5)
Satna                  37(+5)       20(+5)
Shimla                 18(+5)       5(-1)
Thiruvananthapuram     34(+2)       24
Tiruchirapalli         35           19(-3)
Varanasi               36(+4)       20(+5)
Vishakhapatnam         39(+8)       24(+2)

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