Weather News India 7 January 2013 Climate Forecast Report

♦ FOG:

At 0530 hours IST of today, fog/dense fog has been observed over some parts of Uttar Pradesh and isolated pockets of Punjab, Haryana & Delhi, north Rajasthan, north Madhya Pradesh, Bihar and Assam. The stations where visibility recorded 50 m or less are: Ganganagar, Chandigarh, Ambala, Agra, Gwalior, Lucknow, Behraich, Varanasi, Satna and Tezpur.

♦ TEMPERATURES: Cold day conditions are prevailing over most parts of Punjab, Haryana, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and over some parts of north Rajasthan and north Madhya Pradesh.

The maximum temperatures are below normal by 612° C over many parts of Punjab, Haryana, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar and over some parts of north Rajasthan and below normal by 25 °C over rest Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Gangetic West Bengal, Gujarat region and Konkan. They are above normal by 24° C over Andhra Pradesh, Tamilnadu and interior Karnataka. They are near normal over rest parts of the country. The lowest maximum temperature of 6.8°C recorded at Najibabad (Uttar Pradesh) and highest maximum temperature of 35.6°C at Anantapur (Andhra Pradesh) in the country.

♦ RAINFALL:

(From 0830 to 1730 hours IST of yesterday): Light rainfall occurred at one or two places over Andaman & Nicobar Islands. Weather remained mainly dry over rest of the country.

♦ CLOUDS:

Kalpana1 Cloud imagery at 0530 hours IST shows convective clouds over parts of southwest Bay of Bengal. Low/medium clouds are seen over some parts of western Himalayan region, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal & Sikkim, Odisha, Arunachal Pradesh and extreme south peninsular India.

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

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

♦ An upper air cyclonic circulation over Odisha and adjoining Chhattisgarh in lower levels persists.

♦ A feeble western disturbance would affect western Himalayan region from 9th onwards.