Weather News India 5 January 2013 Climate Forecast Report

♦   FOG: At 1430 hours IST:  Visibility is 1000 m  or more over most parts of Indo­ Gangetic plains due to lifting of fog   except some parts of east Uttar Pradesh

where it is less than 1000 m due to fog.

♦   TEMPERATURES: Cold wave conditions are prevailing over   some parts of west Rajasthan, Haryana, Chandigarh & Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and northwest Madhya  Pradesh.  Minimum  temperatures  are  below  normal  by  2­3°C.  over remaining  parts  of  northwest &  central India, Gujarat  and Bihar. The  lowest minimum  temperature of   0.0°C  has been  recorded at  Narnaul   (Haryana)  in plains of the country.

♦   RAINFALL:: Weather remained mainly dry over  the country.

♦   CLOUDS: Kalpana­1 Cloud imagery at 1430 hours IST shows convective clouds over   parts of   south Bay of Bengal and southwest Arabian sea. Low/medium

clouds   are  seen   over   some   parts   of   Jammu   &   Kashmir,  Assam,   Arunachal Pradesh, east Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Odisha, coastal Andhra Pradesh, Tamilnadu   &   Puducherry,   Kerala,   Lakshadweep   and   Andaman   &   Nicobar Islands.

♦   The trough of low at mean  sea level over  southwest Bay of Bengal with embedded   an   upper   air   cyclonic   circulation   extending   upto  mid­tropospheric

levels persists.

♦   The upper air trough in lower levels from Assam to north Bay of Bengal persists.