Pune, Apr 30 (UNI) Day temperatures were markedly above normal (5.1°C or more) at many places over Jammu-Kashmir and Ladakh, Gilgit, Baltistan, Muzaffarabad and appreciably above normal (3.1°C to 5.0°C) at a few places over west Rajasthan, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said on Wednesday.
Day temperatures were also appreciably above normal in isolated places over Himachal Pradesh, Saurashtra and Kutch and above normal (1.6°C to 3.0°C) at many places over Marathwada and at a few pockets over west Madhya Pradesh and Lakshadweep, the IMD bulletin said.
Isolated places over coastal Andhra Pradesh and Yanam, Tamil Nadu, Puducherry and Karaikal too experienced above normal temperatures, the bulletin said.
The temperatures were markedly below normal (-5.1 or below) at a few places over Bihar and Meghalaya, at isolated pockets over east Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Sikkim and Assam and appreciably below normal (-3.1°C to -5.0°C) at a few places over Delhi and Jharkhand.
The appreciably below normal temperatures were also recorded at isolated areas over west Uttar Pradesh and Odisha, while the mercury remained below normal (-1.6°C to -3.0°C) at a few places over Haryana and at isolated places over Chhattisgarh, Andaman and Nicobar Island, the IMD said.
The rest of the country experienced normal temperatures.
On Tuesday, the country's highest maximum temperature of 46.3°C was reported at Jaisalmer (west Rajasthan).
Hailstorms occurred at isolated places over east Madhya Pradesh, Vidarbha, Chhattisgarh, Odisha and Jharkhand.
Heat wave conditions prevailed in isolated pockets of Jammu division and southwest Rajasthan.
Rain or thundershowers have occurred at many places in Odisha and Andaman and Nicobar Islands; at a few places in Arunachal Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, coastal Andhra Pradesh and Kerala; at isolated places in Assam and Meghalaya, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura, West Bengal and Sikkim, Jharkhand, Bihar, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, east Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Vidarbha, Telangana, Tamil Nadu, coastal Karnataka and interior Karnataka.
Mainly dry weather has prevailed in Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Punjab, Jammu-Kashmir and Ladakh, west Rajasthan, Gujarat, Konkan and Goa, Madhya Maharashtra, Marathwada, Rayalaseema and Lakshadweep, the IMD said.
The following observations for the past 24 hrs were recorded at 8-30 am on Wednesday.
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
Tiruchirappalli 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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