Pune, Apr 29 (UNI) Heat wave to severe heat wave conditions are very likely in isolated pockets of Saurashtra and Kutch in Gujarat, while rain or thundershowers occurred at most places in Northeast India, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said.

Day temperatures were markedly above normal (5.1°C or more) at a few places over Jammu-Kashmir and Ladakh, Gilgit, Baltistan, Muzaffarabad; appreciably above normal (3.1°C to 5.0°C) at isolated places over west Rajasthan, Saurashtra and Kutch; above normal (1.6°C to 3.0°C) at isolated places over Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, east Rajasthan, Gujarat Region, west Madhya Pradesh, Konkan and Goa and Madhya Maharashtra, the IMD said.

The temperatures were markedly below normal (-5.1 or below) at many places over Bihar; at isolated places over east Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Odisha, West Bengal and Sikkim; appreciably below normal (-3.1°C to -5.0°C) at isolated places over Arunachal Pradesh, Assam and Meghalaya, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram and Tripura; below normal (-1.6°C to -3.0°C) at a few places over east Madhya Pradesh, west Uttar Pradesh; at isolated places over Telangana, Rayalaseema, interior Karnataka and normal over rest parts of the country, the IMD bulletin said.

On Sunday, the highest maximum temperature of 46.4°C was reported at Barmer (west Rajasthan) in the country.

Hailstorm occurred at isolated places over east Madhya Pradesh, Vidarbha, Chhattisgarh, Gangetic West Bengal, Odisha and coastal Andhra Pradesh.

Heat wave to severe heat wave conditions are very likely in isolated pockets of Saurashtra and Kutch on April 29 and isolated heat wave conditions on April 30.

Heat wave conditions are very likely in some parts of west Rajasthan on April 29 and 30; in isolated pockets on May 1; in isolated pockets over Jammu-Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh and east Rajasthan on April 29 and 30.

Rain or thundershowers have occurred at most places in Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram and Tripura and at many places in Arunachal Pradesh, Assam and Meghalaya and Gangetic West Bengal and at a few places in Sub-Himalayan West Bengal and Sikkim, Odisha and Kerala and at isolated places in Jharkhand, Bihar, east Madhya Pradesh, Vidarbha, Chhattisgarh, coastal Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Rayalaseema, Tamil Nadu, coastal Karnataka, interior Karnataka and Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

Mainly dry weather has prevailed in Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Haryana, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu-Kashmir and Ladakh, Rajasthan, west Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Konkan and Goa, Madhya Maharashtra, Marathwada and Lakshadweep, the IMD said.



The following observations for the past 24 hrs were recorded at 8-30 am on Tuesday.



Temperature (deg. C) Max Min

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EAST INDIA

Agartala 31(-2) 22(-1)

Bhubaneswar 37(-1) 21(-5)

Darjeeling 16(-2) 09(-1)

Dibrugarh 26(-3) 19(-1)

Gangtok 17(-4) 11(-2)

Guwahati 28(-3) 21

Imphal 27(-2) 16(-1)

Kohima 21(-4) 14(+1)

Kolkata 34(-2) 19(-7)

Pasighat 28(-1) 19(-1)

Patna 30(-7) 23(-1)

Ranchi 33(-4) 18(-4)

Shillong 21(-2) 13(-1)

NORTH INDIA

Allahabad 39(-2) 24(-1)

Ambala 39(+1) 25(+3)

Amritsar 41(+3) 23(+4)

Bareilly 36(-3) 23(-1)

Chandigarh 39(+2) 26(+4)

Dehra Dun 36(+1) 21(+1)

Jaipur 42(+2) 27(+2)

Jodhpur 44(+3) 25(-1)

Lucknow 37(-3) 22(-1)

New Delhi 40(+1) 25(+1)

Shimla 26(+3) 15(+1)

Srinagar 29(+6) 09

Varanasi 37(-3) 24

CENTRAL INDIA

Bhopal 41 27(+2)

Indore 41 25(+2)

Jabalpur 39(-2) 24(-1)

Nagpur 42 25(-1)

Raipur 38(-3) 23(-3)

Satna 40(-1) 25

PENINSULA

Ahmedabad 44(+2) 27(+1)

Aurangabad 42(+2) 26(+1)

Bengaluru 34 24(+1)

Bhuj 42(+2) 26(+2)

Chennai 36(-1) 28(+1)

Gadag 36(-2) 23

Hyderabad 37(-2) 26

Kanyakumari 35(+2) 25(-1)

Madurai 37(-1) 26

Mahabaleshwar 33(+1) 21(+2)

Mangaluru 34 25

Mumbai 34(+1) 26

Panjim 35(+1) 27(+1)

Pune 41(+2) 24

Rajkot 46(+5) 25(+1)

Thiruvananthapuram 33 25

Tiruchirapalli 38 27

Vishakhapatnam 37(+1) 26(-1)

INDIAN ISLANDS

Car Nicobar 32 24

Minicoy 33 26(-1)

Port Blair 32 26(+1)

(Notes: + indicates above normal, - indicates below normal)

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