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Assam, Meghalaya rough it out

Day temperatures were markedly above normal in parts of Assam and Meghalaya, and were appreciably above normal in parts of Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura, West Bengal, Sikkim, Himachal Pradesh, Saurashtra and Kutch, central Maharashtra and of Tamil Nadu.

They were above normal in parts of coastal Orissa, Bihar and Andhra Pradesh.

They were appreciably below normal in parts of Haryana, Punjab and east Rajasthan, and were below normal in parts of east Uttar Pradesh.

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

Night temperatures were appreciably below normal in parts of Bihar plains, Rajasthan, west Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Konkan and central Maharashtra.

They were below normal in parts of Assam, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura, sub-Himalayan West Bengal, Sikkim, the plains of Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Punjab, east Madhya Pradesh and in the remaining parts of west Madhya Pradesh and of Gujarat.

They were appreciably above normal in parts of Andhra Pradesh and were above normal in parts of Tamil Nadu and of coastal and south interior Karnataka.

They were normal over the rest of the country outside Arunchal Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir from where the data were sparse.

Mainly dry weather prevailed over 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, and at isolated places in West Bengal and Sikkim, coastal Orissa, Bihar plateau, Haryana, Punjab, north Rajasthan, coastal Andhra Pradesh, Rayalaseema, Tamil Nadu, coastal and south interior Karnataka, Kerala and Lakshadweep.

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

                         Temperatures (deg C)

                         Max          Min

Agartala                 35(+2)      17(-3)
Ahmedabad                35(-2)      15(-5)
Allahabad                33(-2)      16(-2)
Amritsar                 29          11(-2)
Aurangabad               37(+1)      18
Bangalore                34(+1)      23(+3)
Bareilly                 31(-1)      15(-2)
Bhopal                   34(-1)      16(-2)
Bhubaneshwar             36          24(+1)
Bombay                   31          22(-1)
Calcutta                 36(+1)     25(+3)
Chandigarh               28(-2)      14(-1)
Dehra Dun                28          12(-1)
Dibrugarh                32(+5)      16
Gadag                    34(-2)      22(+1)
Gangtok                  20          11(+2)
Guwahati                 34(+3)      14(-3)
Hyderabad                37(+2)      25(+4)
Imphal                   31(+4)      9(-2)
Indore                   37(+2)      16(-1)
Jabalpur                 34          15(-1)
Jaipur                   31(-1)      14(-3)
Jodhpur                  33(-1)      13(-5)
Kanyakumari              32          26(+1)
Lucknow                  31(-3)      15(-1)
Madras                   36(+3)      26(+2)
Madurai                  32(-3)      24(+1)
Mangalore                34(+1)      25(+1)
Minicoy                  33(+2)      26(+1)
Nagpur                   37          20
New Delhi                29(-3)      14(-2)
Patna                    33(-1)      15(-3)
Panaji                   32          23(+1)
Pune                     37(+1)      14(-2)
Port Blair               33(+2)      23
Rajkot                   35(-1)      16(-2)
Raipur                   37(+1)      20(-1)
Satna                    33(-1)      15(-2)
Shillong                 24(+2)      12(+1)
Shimla                   18(+3)      10(+2)
Srinagar                 16(+1)      5(+1)
Thiruvananthapuram       34(+1)      25(+1)
Tiruchirapalli           37(+1)      25(+2)
Varanasi                 32(-2)      14(-4)
Vishakhapatnam           34(+2)      27(+4)