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Heat wave rages in Assam

Severe heat wave conditions prevailed in Assam and Meghalaya.

Day temperatures were appreciably above normal in interior Orissa, Jammu, east Madhya Pradesh, coastal Andhra Pradesh and in parts of Nagaland, sub-Himalayan West Bengal, Sikkim, Bihar plains and of east Uttar Pradesh, and were above normal in Telangana, Tamil Nadu and in parts of coastal Orissa, west Madhya Pradesh and Vidarbha.

They were below normal in parts of Gujarat and Konkan.

They were normal over the rest of the country outside Arunachal Pradesh, Gangetic West Bengal and west Uttar Pradesh from where the data were sparse.

Night temperatures were appreciably below normal in southeast Rajasthan and in parts of west Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Saurashtra and Kutch, and were below normal in parts of Rayalaseema and of Tamil Nadu.

They were appreciably above normal in parts of Assam, Meghalaya, West Bengal, Sikkim, Orissa, Bihar plateau and of east Madhya Pradesh, and were above normal in parts of east Uttar Pradesh, west Rajasthan and of south central Maharashtra.

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

Rain or thundershowers occurred at isolated places in Kerala. Mainly dry weather prevailed over the rest of the country.

Rain or snow is likely at isolated places in Jammu and Kashmir.

Rain or thundershowers are likely at a few places in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Assam, Meghalaya and south Tamil Nadu, and at isolated places in Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura, West Bengal, Sikkim, coastal Orissa, Bihar plateau, north Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Lakshadweep.

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

                        Temperatures (deg C)

                         Max          Min


Agartala                 34(+2)       26(+8)
Ahmedabad                33(-1)       17(-1)
Allahabad                34(+2)       17(+1)
Amritsar                 26           9(-2)
Aurangabad               35           17
Bangalore                33(+1)       17(-2)
Bhopal                   34(+2)       15(-2)
Bhubaneshwar             39(+5)       23(+1)
Bombay                   29(-2)       23(+1)
Calcutta                 36(+3)       25(+4)
Chandigarh               27           11(-3)
Dehra Dun                26(+1)       9(-3)
Dibrugarh                33(+7)       20(+5)
Gadag                    37(+2)       22(+1)
Gangtok                  23(+5)       12(+4)
Guwahati                 37(+8)       15(-1)
Hyderabad                37(+3)       21(+1)
Imphal                   32(+6)       18(+8)
Indore                   35(+3)       15
Jabalpur                 34(+3)       20(+6)
Jaipur                   30(+1)       16(+1)
Jodhpur                  32           16(-1)
Kanyakumari              32           25
Lucknow                  33(+2)       16(+2)
Madras                   34(+2)       21(-2)
Madurai                  36(+2)       21(-1)
Mangalore                33           24(+1)
Minicoy                  33(+3)       27(+2)
Nagpur                   38(+3)       19
New Delhi                29(+1)       13(-2)
Panaji                   32           23
Patna                    34(+3)       18(+1)
Pune                     35           16(+1)
Port Blair               31           22
Rajkot                   32(-2)       17
Raipur                   37(+4)       24(+4)
Satna                    34(+2)       17(+2)
Shillong                 25(+4)       15(+5)
Shimla                   15(+2)       5(-1)
Srinagar                 17(+5)       3
Tiruchirapalli           35           23
Thiruvananthapuram       34(+2)       23(-1)
Varanasi                 33(+1)       18(+2)
Vishakhapatnam           36(+5)       21(-1)