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Rains over Tamil Nadu, Pondicherry

The depression over the south-east Bay of Bengal moved slightly north-west to about 850 km east of Madras Tuesday afternoon.

It is likely to intensify further and move in the west-north-westerly direction, a special bulletin issued by the Area Cyclone Warning Centre, Madras said.

Under its influence, rainfall at many places, with isolated heavy falls, is likely in all districts of north coastal Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry.

Squally winds, with speeds between 50-60 kmph is likely along and off north coastal Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry from Wednesday morning.

Rain or thundershowers are also likely at most places in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, at many places in coastal Orissa and coastal Andhra Pradesh, and at isolated places in Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Meghalaya, sub-Himalayan West Bengal, Sikkim, Telengana, Rayalseema and interior Karnataka.

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

Rain or thundershowers occurred at a few places in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Orissa and Tamil Nadu, and at isolated places in Assam, Meghalaya, sub-Himalayan West Bengal, Sikkim, coastal Andhra Pradesh and south interior Karnataka.

Mainly dry weather prevailed over the rest of the country.

Day temperatures were appreciably above normal in parts of Assam, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura, West Bengal, Sikkim, Madhya Pradesh, coastal Andhra Pradesh, Rayalseema and Tamil Nadu.

They were above normal in parts of Orissa, Bihar plateau, east Uttar Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, north-west Rajasthan, central Maharashtra, Telenganga, Rayalseema and Kerala.

They were markedly below normal in Kashmir and normal over the rest of the country.

Night temperatures were below normal in parts of Jammu and Kashmir. They were appreciably above normal in parts of Assam, Meghalaya, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Vidarbha, Andhra Pradesh and interior Karnataka.

They were above normal in parts of Orissa, West Bengal, Sikkim, Saurashtra, Kutch, Konkan, Goa, central Maharashtra, coastal Karnataka and Kerala.

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

 
                   Temperatures (deg c)    

                    Max       Min    


Agartala            33(+3)   22(+1)
Allahabad           34(+2)   21(+2)
Amritsar            32(+1)   14
Ahmedabad           34(-1)   19(-1)
Aurangabad          30(-1)   18(+1)
Bhubaneshwar        33(+2)   24(+2)
Bareily             32(+1)   19(+1)
Bhopal              33(+2)   20(+3)
Bangalore           30(+3)   20(+1)
Bombay              32       25(+1)
Calcutta            34(+3)   25(+2)
Chandigarh          30       16(+1)
Dibrugarh           33(+5)   22(+3)
Gadag               31       21(+1)
Gangtok             21       13(+2)
Guwahati            31(+2)   23(+2)
Hyderabad           32(+2)   23(+4)
Imphal              31(+4)   16
Indore              35(+4)   20(+4)
Jabalpur            32(+2)   21(+5)
Jaipur              33(+1)   17
Jodhpur             34(-1)   16(-2)
Kanyakumari         33(+3)   25(+1)
Lucknow             33(+1)   18
Madras              35(+4)   25(+1)
Madurai             36(+4)   22(-1)
Mahabaleshwar       26(+2)   16
Mangalore           31(+1)   24(+1)
New Delhi           32       18(+1)
Nagpur              33(+1)   21(+2)
Panjim              32       25(+2)
Patna               32(+1)   20
Pune                32(+1)   18(+1)
Rajkot              34(-1)   21(+1)
Raipur              32(+1)   21(+1)
Satna               34(+3)   20(+3)
Shillong            22(+1)   13(+1)
Shimla              20(+3)   10
Srinagar            16(-5)   2(-2)
Thiruvananthapuram  32(+2)   25(+2)
Tiruchirapalli      35(+3)   24
Varanasi            34(+2)   --
Vishakhapatnam      34(+3)   26(+2)

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