Pune, Mar 18(UNI) Day temperatures were markedly above normal (5.1°C or more) at isolated places over Sub-Himalayan West Bengal and Sikkim.
The temperatures were appreciably above normal (3.1°C to 5.0°C) at isolated places over Bihar, Odisha; above normal (1.6°C to 3.0°C) at a few places over Assam, Meghalaya, Chhattisgarh, Telangana, Vidarbha, Konkan, Goa, north interior Karnataka, Rayalaseema; at isolated places
over Saurashtra, Kutch, east Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura
and Madhya Maharashtra.
These were markedly below normal (-5.1°C or less) at isolated places over Jammu-Kashmir and Ladakh, Gilgit, Baltistan, Muzaffarabad, Uttarakhand; below normal (-3.0°C to -1.6°C) at many places over Rajasthan; at isolated places over Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Chandigarh, Delhi, west Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and near normal over rest parts of the country.
On Monday, heat wave to severe heat wave realised in north interior Odisha.
On Monday, the highest maximum temperature of 43.5°C was reported at Boudh (Odisha) over
the country.
Night temperatures were markedly above normal (5.1°C or more) at isolated places over Odisha, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram and Tripura; above normal (1.6°C to 3.0°C) at a few places over Gangetic West Bengal, Jharkhand, Assam, Meghalaya, Tamil Nadu, Puducherry and Karaikal;
at isolated places over Chhattisgarh, Saurashtra, Kutch, Konkan, Goa, north interior Karnataka, Rayalaseema, coastal Andhra Pradesh and Yanam.
These are appreciably below normal (-5.0°C to -3.1°C) at isolated places over Haryana, Chandigarh, Delhi, east Rajasthan; below normal (-3.0°C to -1.6°C) at a few places over Jammu-Kashmir and Ladakh, Gilgit, Baltistan, Muzaffarabad, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand; at isolated places over Punjab, west Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and near normal over rest parts of the country.
On Tuesday, the lowest minimum temperature of 11.2°C is reported at Karnal (Haryana) over the plains of the country.
Rain or thundershowers have occurred at a few places in Arunachal Pradesh, Kerala and Lakshadweep and at isolated places in Assam and Meghalaya, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram,
Tripura, West Bengal and Sikkim, Odisha, Jharkhand, Bihar, east Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh and Tamil Nadu.
Mainly dry weather has prevailed in west Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Punjab, Jammu-Kashmir and Ladakh, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Vidarbha, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat State, Konkan and Goa, Madhya Maharashtra, Marathwada, coastal Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Rayalseema, coastal Karnataka, interior Karnataka and Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
Following observations for the past 24 hrs were recorded at 0830 hrs on Tuesday.
Temperature (deg.C)
Max Min
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EAST INDIA
Agartala 34(+1) 26(+6)
Bhubaneswar 37 23
Darjeeling 22(+6) 10(+4)
Dibrugarh 30(+3) 18(+1)
Gangtok 23(+5) 12(+2)
Guwahati 36(+5) 24(+7)
Imphal 29(+1) 18(+5)
Kohima 27 19
Kolkata 34(-1) 26(+3)
Passighat 27(+1) 18(+1)
Patna 34(+1) 20(+2)
Ranchi 33(+1) 21(+4)
Shillong 25(+3) 15(+3)
NORTH INDIA
Allahabad 36(+1) 17(-1)
Ambala 28(-1) 16(+1)
Amritsar 26(-1) 12
Bareilly 30(-1) 16(-1)
Chandigarh 28 14(-1)
Dehra Dun 28 12(-1)
Jaipur 31(-2) 17(-1)
Jodhpur 33 17(-1)
Lucknow 33 16
New Delhi 29(-1) 15(-2)
Shimla 17 08
Srinagar 17(+2) 03(-2)
Varanasi 34 18(+1)
CENTRAL INDIA
Bhopal 32(-3) 17(-1)
Indore 33(-3) 20(+3)
Jabalpur 34(-1) 17(-2)
Nagpur 39(+2) 20
Raipur 40(+4) 24(+3)
Satna 34 18
PENINSULA
Ahmedabad 37 21(+1)
Aurangabad 37(+1) 19
Bengaluru 35(+2) 23(+2)
Bhuj 36 22(+3)
Chennai 34 25(+1)
Gadag 37(+1) 22(+1)
Hyderabad 39(+2) 23(+1)
Kanyakumari 33(+1) 26(+1)
Madurai 37(+1) 25(+1)
Mahabaleshwar 32(+1) 19(+1)
Mangaluru 33(-1) 26(+2)
Mumbai 32(+1) 24(+1)
Panjim 34(+2) 25(+1)
Pune 38(+2) 17
Rajkot 38(+2) 18(-2)
Thiruvananthapuram 35(+2) 23(-1)
Tiruchirapalli 37(+1) 26(+2)
Vishakhapatnam 36(+1) 25(+1)
INDIAN ISLANDS
Car Nicobar 34(+1) 26(+3)
Minicoy 33(+1) 26
Port Blair 32 25(+2)
(Notes: + Indicates is above normal, - Indicates is below normal.)
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