20 August 2013 Weather News India Rainfall Forecast Report


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

RAINFALL:  Rain/thundershowers occurred  at most places over Gangetic West Bengal and Odisha; at many places over Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Konkan & Goa, coastal Karnataka and Jharkhand; at a few places over Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Telangana and  at isolated places  over Sub­Himalayan West Bengal & Sikkim, Tripura and Jammu & Kashmir. Weather remained mainly dry over rest parts of the country. The  chief amounts of  rainfall  (3 cm or more)  recorded at 1730 hours IST of   yesterday were: Sagar­13, Haldia­5, Titlagarh, Kailashahar, Kolkatta(ALP), Canning and Diamond Harbour­4 each and Agumbe, Digha,  Jamshedpur, Baripada, Balasore, Guna and Rajgarh­3 each. 

TEMPERATURES:  Maximum temperatures were below normal by 2­5°C at many places over   Madhya   Pradesh, east Rajasthan, Odisha, Gangetic West Bengal and at few places over Jammu & Kashmir and  coastal Andhra Pradesh. They were
above normal by 2­5°C at many places over Assam & Meghalaya, Arunachal Pradesh and at few places over Sub­Himalayan West  Bengal & Sikkim and coastal Karnataka and nearly normal over rest parts of the country.

♦   Kalpana­1:  Cloud  imagery at 0530 hours IST  shows  convective  clouds over  some parts of east Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh,   east   Uttar  Pradesh,  south  Jharkhand,   north   Chhattisgarh,   Odisha,  Gangetic  West Bengal,  northeastern  states, Vidarbha,  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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