Weather News India 24 December 2012 Climate Forecast Report


♦  FOG:  Fog/dense fog has observed over most parts of Sub­Himalayan West Bengal, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh and many parts of Punjab, Haryana & Delhi, Gangetic West Bengal and Assam. The stations where visibility less than 50M have been recorded at 0830 hours IST of today are: Ludhiana,   Patiala,   Ambala,   Meerut,   Delhi,   Aligarh,   Hardoi,   Bahraich,   Barabanki,   Lucknow, Fursatganj, Allahabad, Churk, Purnea and Malda.
♦  TEMPERATURES:   Minimum temperatures are below normal by 2­4°C over many parts of east  Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Odisha and  some parts of Jammu division of Jammu & Kashmir, Punjab, Haryana, Delhi, west Uttar Pradesh, Saurashtra & Kutch, Gangetic West Bengal and  north Andhra Pradesh. They are above normal by about  2°C over parts of Gujarat region, Madhya Maharashtra, Sub­Himalayan West Bengal and extreme south peninsular India and near normal over rest parts of the country. The lowest minimum temperatures of 1.8°C has been recorded at Hissar (Haryana) in the plains of the country.
♦  RAINFALL:Rainfall has occurred at many places over Andaman & Nicobar Islands and at one or two places over Tripura and Lakshadweep. The rainfall amounts (1 cm or more)   recorded at 0830 hours IST of today are: Hutbay­5, Carnicobar­2 and Nancowry­1.
♦  CLOUDS: Kalpana­1: Cloud imagery at 0830 hours IST shows convective clouds over comorin area, south & adjoining eastcentral Bay of Bengal,   Andaman Sea and southwest Arabian sea. Low/medium clouds are seen over parts of  Jammu & Kashmir, south peninsular India and Lakshadweep.
♦  A feeble western disturbance as an upper air system over north Pakistan and neighbourhood now lies over Jammu & Kashmir and adjoining north Pakistan.
♦  The deep depression over southwest Arabian sea moved westwards and  lay centred at 0830 hours IST of today near lat. 9.0°N and long. 60.0°E, about 1200 km west­southwest of Amini Divi (Lakshadweep).  The system   would   intensify   further   and   move   westwards   direction   and   cross   Somalia   coast   during   late
evening/night on 25th December 2012. 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 during next 2­3 days.

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