Weather News India 23 December 2012 Climate Forecast Report

♦  FOG:   Fog/dense fog  observed  over  some  parts  of Sub­Himalayan West Bengal, Bihar  and  east  Uttar Pradesh.  The major stations where visibility has been reported below 200 m at 0830 hours IST of today are: Jalpaiguri,   Malda,   Purnea,   Bhagalpur,   Gaya,   Gorakhpur,   Varanasi,   Allahabad,   Fursatganj,   Lucknow  and Hamirpur.

♦  TEMPERATURES:  Minimum temperatures fell by 2­3°C over many parts of Assam; some parts of west Uttar Pradesh and isolated pockets of Punjab and north interior Karnataka; rose by 2­3°C over isolated pockets of Gujarat, Madhya Maharashtra and Marathawada and changed a little elsewhere over the country. They are below normal by 2­4°C over many parts of   Jammu & Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Haryana, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh & Chhattisgarh; some parts of east Rajasthan, Vidarbha, Jharkhand, Bihar & Odisha and isolated pockets of interior Karnataka.  They are above normal by 2­3°C over some parts of Gujarat, peninsular India, Lakshadweep & Andaman & Nicobar Islands and near normal over rest parts of the country. The lowest minimum temperature of 1.2°C recorded at Adampur (Punjab) in plains of the country.

♦  RAINFALL: Rainfall occurred at one or two places over Tamilnadu, Lakshadweep and Andaman & Nicobar Islands. Weather remained mainly dry over rest parts of the country. The chief amounts of rainfall  (in cm) recorded at 0830 hours IST of today are: Minicoy & Carnicobar­1 each. 

♦  CLOUDS: Kalpana­1: Cloud imagery at 1430 hours IST shows convective clouds over south Bay of Bengal, south Andaman sea and south Arabian sea. Low/medium clouds are seen over some parts of Arunachal Pradesh,   Madhya   Maharashtra,   Karnataka,   Kerala,   Tamilnadu,   Lakshadweep   and   Andaman   &   Nicobar Islands.

♦  A feeble western disturbance as an upper air system lies over north Pakistan and adjoining Afghanistan.

♦   The   low   pressure   area   over   southeast   and   adjoining   southwest   Arabian   sea   has concentrated into a depression over southwest and adjoining southeast Arabian sea; lay centred at 1430 hours IST of today near lat. 9.0°N and long. 63.0°E, about 1100 km west­southwest of Amini Divi (Lakshadweep).   The system would intensify and move westwards direction during next 3 days. No adverse weather would occur along and off west coast of India as the system would move away from Indian coast.

♦  An easterly wave would affect extreme south peninsular India from 24th onwards.