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Severe heat wave in Rajasthan

Rain or snow is likely to fall at isolated places in Jammu and Kashmir. Rain or thundershowers are likely to fall at a few places in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura, West Bengal and Sikkim, and at isolated places in Bihar, Tamil Nadu, south interior Karnataka and Kerala. Mainly dry weather will prevail over the rest of the country.

Severe heat wave conditions prevailed in parts of Rajasthan. Heat wave conditions also prevailed in the plains of west Uttar Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Madhya Pradesh, north Gujarat, north-central Maharashtra and the remaining parts of Rajasthan and some parts of Haryana, Vidarbha, Marathwada and Telangana.

Day temperatures were appreciably above normal in the Bihar plateau, Tamil Nadu. north interior Karnataka and parts of coastal Andhra Pradesh, and above normal in some parts of east Uttar Pradesh, hills of west Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, and south Gujarat.

They were below normal in the remaining parts of east Uttar Pradesh and normal in the rest of the country barring Arunachal Pradesh, from where data were sparse.

Rain or snow fell at isolated places in Himachal Pradesh. Rain or thundershowers fell at many places in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, sub-Himalayan West Bengal, Sikkim, a few places in Gangetic West Bengal and isolated places in Assam, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura, and coastal Karnataka.

Very light rain or snow also fell at isolated places in Kerala.

Mainly dry weather prevailed over the rest of the country.

              Temperatures (deg C)

                 Max      Min

Agartala        33(-2)   21(-1)
Ahmedabad       43(+4)   24(+2)
Allahabad       40(+3)   24(+3)
Amritsar        37(+5)   15(0)
Aurangabad      41(+3)   22(+1)
Bangalore       36(+3)   22(+1)
Bareilly        38(+2)   24(+4)
Bhopal          42(+5)   21(+1)
Bhubaneswar     37       27(+2)
Bombay          32       24
Calcutta        35(-1)   25(+1)
Dehra Dun       33(+2)   17(+1)
Gadag           38(+1)   23(+1)
Gangtok         21       11
Guwahati        30(-2)   20(+1)
Hyderabad       41(+5)   25(+2)
Indore          44(+7)   23(+4)
Jabalpur        41(+5)   24(+6)
Jaipur          41(+6)   24(+4)
Jodhpur         43(+6)   24(+3)
Kanyakumari     33(+2)   28(+2)
Lucknow         39(+2)   23(+4)
Madras          37(+3)   26(+1)
Madurai         36       25(+1)
Mangalore       35(+1)   27(+2)
Nagpur          43(+4)   24(+1)
New Delhi       38(+3)   21(+2)
Panjim          33       27(+2)
Patna           35(-2)   23(+2)
Poona           39(+2)   19(0)
Raipur          43(+5)   25(+1)
Rajkot          43(+5)   23(+3)
Satna           42(+5)   23(+3)
Shillong        22(-1)   14(+1)
Simla           23(+5)   15(+5)
Srinagar        24(+6)    8(+2)
Tiruchirapalli  36       27(+2)
Trivandrum      33(+1)   25(0)
Varanasi        39(+2)   25(+4)
Visakhapatnam   35(+3)   29(+4)

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