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Assam in the throngs of heat wave

Heat wave conditions prevailed in Assam, Manipur, West Bengal, Sikkim, Orissa, Bihar plateau and south-east Madhya Pradesh, and in parts of coastal Andhra Pradesh.

Day temperatures were appreciably above normal in Meghalaya, Tripura, the Bihar plains, the plains of west Uttar Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu, Vidarbha, Telangana and north Tamil Nadu, in the remaining parts of coastal Andhra Pradesh, and in parts of east Uttar Pradesh, north Madhya Pradesh, Rayalaseema and of north interior Karnataka.

They were above normal in the hills of west Uttar Pradesh, south Tamil Nadu, Kerala, in the remaining parts of Rayalaseema and in parts of central Maharashtra.

They were appreciably below normal in south Gujarat, and were below normal in parts of Haryana, Punjab, north Gujarat and north Konkan.

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

Night temperatures were markedly below normal in parts of Tamil Nadu, and were appreciably below normal in the remaining parts of Tamil Nadu. They were below normal in Punjab and southwest Rajasthan.

They were appreciably to markedly above normal in Assam, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura, West Bengal, Sikkim, Orissa, the Bihar plateau, Kashmir, east Madhya Pradesh and Vidarbha, and in parts of north Rajasthan, Marathwada and of interior Karnataka.

Night temperatures were above normal in east Uttar Pradesh and in parts of Haryana, west Madhya Pradesh, north Gujarat and of south Telangana.

They were above normal or normal over the rest of the country outside Arunachal Pradesh from where the data were sparse.

Rain or snow occurred at isolated places in Himachal Pradesh. Mainly dry weather prevailed over the rest of the country.

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

Rain or thundershowers are likely at a few places in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands and at isolated places in Assam, Meghalaya, West Bengal, Sikkim, coastal Orissa, south 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                 35(+3)       25(+8)
Ahmedabad                33(-1)       17
Allahabad                34(+2)       18(+2)
Amritsar                 26           7(-3)
Aurangabad               36(+1)       19(+3)
Bangalore                34(+2)       18
Bareilly                 32(+3)       16(+2)
Bhopal                   33(+1)       14(-2)
Bhubaneshwar             39(+5)       24(+3)
Bombay                   30(-1)       21(-1)
Calcutta                 38(+5)       25(+5)
Dehra Dun                27(+2)       10(-1
Gadag                    36(+1)       22(+2)
Gangtok                  23(+5)       13(+5)
Guwahati                 37(+8)       16(+1)
Hyderabad                38(+4)       22(+3)
Imphal                   32(+6)       13(+4)
Indore                   35(+3)       16(+2)
Jabalpur                 35(+4)       20(+7)
Jaipur                   30(+1)       17(+3)
Jodhpur                  31(-1)       14(-2)
Kanyakumari              32           25
Lucknow                  33(+2)       17(+3)
Madras                   35(+3)       20(-2)
Madurai                  36(+2)       19(-3)
Mangalore                34(+1)       25(+2)
Minicoy                  33(+3)       27(+3)
Nagpur                   38(+3)       20(+2)
New Delhi                28           15(+1)
Panaji                   33(+1)       23(+1)
Patna                    34(+3)       17(+1)
Pune                     36(+1)       15(+1)
Port Blair               31           21(-1)
Rajkot                   31(-3)       17(+1)
Raipur                   38(+5)       24(+5)
Shillong                 25(+4)       15(+6)
Shimla                   17(+4)       6
Satna                    36(+4)       18(+3)
Srinagar                 14(+2)       5(+3)
Thiruvananthapuram       34(+2)       23(-1)
Tiruchirapalli           36(+1)       19(-3)
Varanasi                 34(+2)       17(+2)