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Rains likely over large parts of the West Coast

Heavy rain is likely to fall at isolated places in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Kerala and Lakshadweep in the next 48 hours.

Rain or thundershowers are likely at most places in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, coastal Karnataka, Kerala and Lakshadweep, at many places in the Konkan, Goa, and south interior Karnataka, at a few places in Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura, West Bengal, Sikkim, Orissa, east Madhya Pradesh, coastal Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, and north interior Karnataka, and at isolated places in Bihar, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, central Maharashtra, Marathwada, Vidarbha, Telangana and Rayalaseema.

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

Rain or thundershowers fell at most places in Kerala, at many places in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Assam, Meghalaya, sub-Himalayan West Bengal, Sikkim, Himachal Pradesh, the Konkan, Goa, coastal Karnataka and Lakshadweep, at a few places in Bihar, east Uttar Pradesh, east Madhya Pradesh, Telangana, and north interior Karnataka, and at isolated places in Jammu and Kashmir, central Maharashtra, Vidarbha, coastal Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, and south interior Karnataka.

Mainly dry weather prevailed over the rest of the country.

Day temperatures were above normal in Jammu and Kashmir.

They were appreciably to markedly below normal in Orissa, Bihar, the plains of Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, central Maharashtra, south Konkan, Goa, Marathwada, Vidarbha, north Tamil Nadu and interior Karnataka, and in some parts of Assam, Meghalaya and Andhra Pradesh.

Day temperatures were below normal in Saurashtra and Kutch and in some parts of south Tamil Nadu.

They were normal in the rest of the country except for Arunachal Pradesh from where data were sparse.

                     Temperatures (deg C)

	             Max      Min



Agartala            32(-1)   26(+2)
Ahmedabad           38(-2)   28(+1)
Allahabad           41(-1)   29(+1)
Amritsar            33(-6)   22
Aurangabad          34(-5)   24(+1)
Bangalore           29(-4)   21
Bareilly            38(-3)   28(+2)
Bhopal              38(-2)   27
Bhubaneswar         30(-8)   25(-2)
Bombay              33       28(+1)
Calcutta            34(-2)   28(+1)
Chandigarh          36(-3)   23(-1)
Dehra Dun           32(-4)   23(+1)
Dibrugarh           --       24(+2)
Gadag               28(-8)   22(-1)
Gangtok             22       17(+3)
Guwahati            27(-4)   25(+2)
Hyderabad           35(-3)   24(-2)
Imphal              31(+2)   21(+1)
Indore              38(-2)   26(+1)
Jabalpur            40(-1)   27(+1)
Jaipur              38(-3)   27(+1)
Jodhpur             39(-3)   26(-2)
Kanyakumari         31(-2)   23(-3)
Lucknow             38(-3)   27(+1)
Madras              35(-3)   28
Madurai             36       24(-2)
Mahabaleshwar       25(-3)   --
Mangalore           31(0-1)  23(-1)
Nagpur              39(-4)   26(-3)
New Delhi           33(-8)   25(-2)
Panjim              27(-6)   23(-4)
Patna               34(-6)   24(-2)
Poona               33(-3)   24(+1)
Raipur              36(-6)   26(-6)
Rajkot              38(-2)   25
Satna               39(-3)   28(+1)
Shillong            21(-3)   18(+2)
Simla               19(-5)   15
Srinagar            28(+2)   11(-1)
Tiruchirapalli      35(-2)   26
Trivandrum          30(-1)   22(-3)
Visakhapatnam       32(-2)   28 

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