19 August 2013 Weather News India Rainfall Forecast Report


♦  Southwest monsoon has been vigorous over Gangetic West Bengal and active over Haryana, Chandigarh & Delhi, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Telangana and coastal  Karnataka.

RAINFALL: Rain/thundershowers  has occurred   at most places  over Jammu & Kashmir, east Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, West Bengal & Sikkim and along west coast; at many places over Uttarakhand, west Uttar Pradesh, east Rajasthan, west Assam, Vidarbha, Telangana and north coastal Andhra Pradesh; at a few places over Punjab, Haryana, Jharkhand, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram & Tripura, Madhya Maharashtra and south Andhra Pradesh and   at isolated places  over south Gujarat, Bihar, Marathawada and Andaman & Nicobar Islands. Weather remained mainly dry over rest parts of the country. The chief amounts of rainfall (5 cm or more) recorded at 0830 hours IST of  today are: Dhanu­19; Jabalpur and Diamond Harbour­17 each; Canning­13; Balasore­9;  Chandbali and Datia­ 8 each; Sundernagar and Midnapore­7 each;  Varanasi, Tikamgarh, Sagar, Narsinghpur and Nizamabad­6 each; Phulbani, Portblair, Pachmarhi, Meerut, Shimla, Sheopur, Nowgong, Vengurla and Baripada­5 each.

TEMPERATURES: Minimum temperatures are below normal by 2­3°C at isolated pockets of east Rajasthan, west Uttar Pradesh, south Madhya Pradesh and south coastal Andhra Pradesh. They are above normal by 2­3°C at isolated pockets of western Himalayan region and near normal over rest parts of the country.

♦  Kalpana­1: Cloud imagery at 1430 hours IST shows convective clouds over some parts of east Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Odisha, Gangetic West Bengal, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram & Tripura,   south   interior   Karnataka,   north   &   adjoining   central   Bay   of   Bengal   and   southeast   Arabian   sea. Low/medium clouds are seen over rest parts of the country.

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