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Southwest Monsoon advances over bay of Bengal, south Arabian sea

Pune, May 21 (UNI) Southwest Monsoon further advanced over some more parts of south Arabian sea, Maldives and Comorin area; south Bay of Bengal; some more parts of central Bay of Bengal and some parts of northeast Bay of Bengal on Wednesday, India Meteorological Department (IMD) said.
The conditions are likely to become favourable for Monsoon onset over Kerala during next 3-4 days. The conditions are also likely to become favourable for further advance of southwest Monsoon over some more parts of south Arabian sea, the IMD bulletin said.

Favourable conditions for advance of south west Monsoon are also likely in remaining parts of Maldives and Comorin area; some parts of Lakshadweep area, Kerala, Tamil Nadu; some more parts south and central Bay of Bengal, north Bay of Bengal and some parts of northeastern states during the same period.
Day Temperatures were markedly above normal ( >5.1°C) at Isolated places over Jammu-Kashmir and Ladakh, Gilgit, Baltistan, Muzaffarabad; appreciably above normal (3.1°C to 5.0°C) at Isolated places over Himachal Pradesh, west Rajasthan.
The temperatures were above normal (1.6°C to 3.0°C) at isolated places over Punjab, west Madhya Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Odisha, east Rajasthan.
The temperatures were near normal (-1.5°C to 1.5°C) at many places over Madhya Maharashtra, Konkan and Goa, Marathwada, Vidarbha, coastal Andhra Pradesh and Yanam, Telangana, Kerala and Mahe, Rayalaseema; at a few places over Tamil Nadu, Puducherry and Karaikal, east Uttar Pradesh, Gangetic West Bengal, Assam and Meghalaya, Jharkhand;
The temperatures were also normal at Isolated places over Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura, Chhattisgarh, interior Karnataka.
On Tuesday, the highest maximum temperature of 46.6°C was reported at Banda (east Uttar Pradesh) in the country.
Hailstorms observed at isolated places over Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, east Uttar Pradesh, east Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh.
Heat wave to severe heat wave conditions prevailed in isolated pockets of east Rajasthan; heat wave conditions in isolated pockets of east Uttar Pradesh and west Rajasthan.
Warm night to severe warm night conditions prevailed in isolated pockets of Rajasthan; warm night conditions in isolated pockets of Haryana.
Rain or thundershowers have occurred at most places in Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura, coastal Karnataka and north interior Karnataka and at many places in Assam and Meghalaya, Sub Himalayan West Bengal and Sikkim, Madhya Maharashtra, coastal Andhra Pradesh, Rayalaseema, south interior Karnataka, Kerala and Lakshadweep.
Rain and thunderstorms have also occurred at a few places in Arunachal Pradesh, Gangetic West Bengal, Jharkhand, Marathwada, Telangana, Tamil Nadu and Andaman and Nicobar Islands and at isolated places in Odisha, Bihar, east Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu-Kashmirand Ladakh, east Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Vidarbha, Chhattisgarh and Gujarat.
Mainly dry weather has prevailed in west Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Punjab and west Rajasthan, the IMD said.

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

Temperature (deg. C) Max Min
------ ------
EAST INDIA
Agartala 33 25(+1)
Bhubaneswar 39(+1) 29(+2)
Darjeeling 18(-1) 14(+3)
Dibrugarh 26(-4) 23
Gangtok 18(-3) 15
Guwahati 28(-4) 23
Imphal 27(-2) 20
Kohima 19(-6) 16(+1)
Kolkata 36 28(+1)
Pasighat 27(-3) 20(-2)
Patna 37(-1) 27(+1)
Ranchi 34(-3) 22(-2)
Shillong 23(-1) 15(-1)
NORTH INDIA
Allahabad 42(+1) 26(-1)
Ambala 41(+2) 30(+5)
Amritsar 42(+2) 28(+5)
Bareilly 38(-1) 27(+1)
Chandigarh 41(+2) 31(+5)
Dehra Dun 37(+2) 25(+3)
Jaipur 44(+2) 32(+4)
Jodhpur 43(+2) 30(+2)
Lucknow 39(-1) 27(+1)
New Delhi 41(+1) 30(+3)
Shimla 28(+3) 20(+4)
Srinagar 31(+6) 16(+4)
Varanasi 39(-2) 28(+2)
CENTRAL INDIA
Bhopal 39(-2) 26(-1)
Indore 35(-6) 26(+1)
Jabalpur 41(-1) 27(-1)
Nagpur 42(-1) 28
Raipur 41(-1) 30(+1)
Satna 43(+1) 31(+3)
PENINSULA
Ahmedabad 41(-1) 30(+2)
Aurangabad 36(-4) 22(-3)
Bengaluru 27(-6) 21(-1)
Bhuj 40(+1) 27(+1)
Chennai 34(-4) 25(-3)
Gadag 29(-7) 22
Hyderabad 36(-4) 26(-1)
Kanyakumari 34(+2) 24(-2)
Madurai 35(-3) 26(-1)
Mahabaleshwar 28(-2) 18
Mangaluru 26(-7) 23(-2)
Mumbai 33(-1) 24(-4)
Panjim 31(-3) 25(-1)
Pune 35(-2) 21(-2)
Rajkot 41 27(+1)
Thiruvananthapuram 32(-1) 25
Tiruchirapalli 35(-3) 26(-1)
Vishakhapatnam 32(-5) 25(-3)
INDIAN ISLANDS
Car Nicobar 32(+1) 24
Minicoy 34(+1) 28(+1)
Port Blair 31 26(+1)
(Notes: + indicates above normal, - indicates below normal)
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