India weather report, August 2

Rain/Thundershowers are likely at most places in many places in Gangetic West Bengal, Orissa, a few places in Arunachal Pradesh, Assam and Meghalaya.

Forecast valid until the morning of August 4. Rain/Thundershowers are likely at:

East: Many places in Gangetic West Bengal, Orissa, a few places in Arunachal Pradesh, Assam and Meghalaya, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram and Tripura, Sub-Himalayan West Bengal and Sikkim, Jharkhand, Bihar.

North: Many places in Rajasthan; a few places in Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Punjab; isolated places in Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir.

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Central: Many places in Madhya pradesh, Vidarbha, Chattisgarh (south Chattisgarh).

Peninsula: Many plkaces in Gujarat state, Konkan and Goa, Madhya Maharashtra, coastal Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Rayalaseema, coastal and south interior Karnataka, Kerala; a few places in Marathwada, Tamil Nadu, north interior Karnataka.

Islands: Many places in Andaman and Nicobar,Lakshadweep.

Temperatures recorded in four meteropolitan centers were:

Kolkata Max 33 (+1) dc/ Min 26 (N) dc

New Delhi Max 36 (+2) dc/ Min 28 (+1) dc

Chennai Max 38 (+3) dc/ Min 26 (N) dc

Mumbai Max 31 (+2) dc/ Min 25 (N) dc

A feeble low pressure area has formed over northwest and adjoining west central Bay Bengal off Orissa coast. Associated cyclonic circulation extends upto 7.6 kms a.s.l. tilting southwestwards with height. System is likely to become more marked. The axis of the monsoon trough at sea level passes through Phalodi, Sawai Madhopur, Sagar, Champa, centre of feeble low pressure area and thence southeastwards to north Andaman sea. The off-shore trough at sea level from Maharashtra coast to Kerala coast persists. The cyclonic circulation over Gujarat Region and neighbourhood now lies between 2.1 and 5.8 kms a.s.l. A cyclonic circulation lies over east Madhya Pradesh and neighbourhood and extends upto 1.5 kms a.s.l. The cyclonic circulation over southeast Madhya Pradesh and adjoining Vidarbha has merged with the above system. The western disturbance as an upper air system over Jammu and Kashmir and neighbourhood has moved away northeastwards.

Total rainfall during the past 24 hours at 175 available stations in the plains, out of 291 stations, is 189 cms.

Normal for the above 175 stations is 163 cms.

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