Weather News India 2 January 2013 Climate Forecast Report

♦ FOG:

At 0830 hours IST of today, fog/dense fog has been observed over many parts of Haryana, Delhi, north Rajasthan and west Uttar Pradesh and some parts of Punjab, east Uttar Pradesh and northwest Madhya Pradesh. The stations where visibility 50 M and less recorded at 0830 hours IST of today: Chandigarh, Karnal, Bhiwani, Ganganagar, Churu, Pilani, Narnaul, Delhi, Meerut, Aligarh, Agra, Bareilly, Hardoi, Kanpur, Barabanki, Sultanpur and Gwalior.

 

♦ TEMPERATURES: cold wave conditions are prevailing over many parts of west Uttar Pradesh. The minimum temperatures are below normal by 46° C over many parts of west Uttar Pradesh and by 23° C over many parts of Haryana, Delhi, Rajasthan and Gujarat. They are above normal by 46 C over many parts of Chhattishgarh, interior Odisha, Maharashtra and Karnataka; by 23 C over rest Odisha, and over Andhra Pradesh, Kerala and south Tamilnadu. They are near normal over rest of the country. The lowest minimum temperature of 0.6°C has been recorded at Muzaffarnagar (Uttar Pradesh) in the plains of the country.

♦ RAINFALL

: Rainfall has occurred at many places over Andaman & Nicobar Islands and at a few places over Vidarbha, Chhattisgarh and interior Odisha and t one two places over Kerala. Weather remained mainly dry over rest of the country. The rainfall amount (1 cm or more) recorded at 0830 hours IST of today are: Hut bay2 and Nanded, Carnicobar, Rajnandgaon, Wardha and Gondia1 each.

♦ CLOUDS:

Kalpana1 Cloud imagery at 0830 hours IST shows convective clouds over parts of south and adjoining central Bay of Bengal. Low/medium clouds are seen over western Himalayan region, east Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Arunachal Pradesh and south peninsular India.

 

♦ The trough of low at mean sea level extends from southeast to northeast Arabian sea now extends from southeast to eastcentral Arabian sea.

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The trough of low at mean sea level over southeast Bay of Bengal persists.

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A feeble western disturbance over Jammu & Kashmir as an upper air system has moved away eastnorth wards.

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A fresh feeble western disturbance would affect western Himalayan region from tomorrow onwards.

♦ An upper air cyclonic circulation lies over Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram and Tripura and neighbourhood in lower levels.