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SPECIAL COVERAGE

CHANDIGARH

DELHI

THE TRIBUNE SPECIALS

50 YEARS OF INDEPENDENCE

TERCENTENARY CELEBRATIONS

Extremes
Town	Max (in Celsius)	Min (in Celsius)

Ambala	35.6	25.2
Ambala	—	26.5
Amritsar	—	27.0
Bhuntar	32.1	19.4
Hisar	—	31.8
Jammu	—	28.8
Karnal	—	28.5
Ludhiana	36.4	28.8
Patiala	—	24.6
Rohtak	—	30.7
Shimla	22.2	15.7
Srinagar	—	19.8
Sundernagar	27.1	21.0

NATION

Read under headings Max (maximum temperature), Min (minimum temperature), R (rainfall in past 24 hours) and TR (total rainfall):

Station	Max	Min	R	TR
Ahmedabad	38	27	0	119
Bangalore	26	20	0	327
Bhopal	33	23	0	155
Bhubaneswar	33	24	7	302
Chennai	34	26	—	117
DehraDun	33	21	15	763
Gangtok	—	17	3	925
Guwahati	33	27	0	530
Hyderabad	29	21	1	179
Jaipur	37	29	0	118
Jammu	37	25	0	304
Kolkota	—	27	—	437
Lucknow	37	24	5	390
Mumbai	31	26	5	708
NewDelhi	39	31	0	83
Panjim	31	25	5	1009
Patna	29	26	0	522
Ranchi	32	22	tr	394
Shillong	24	19	tr	1218
Shimla	25	16	0	343
Thiruvananthapuram	30	23	12	518

Rain likely in region
Tribune News Service

New Delhi, July 23
Rainfall: Rain or thundershowers have occurred at many places in Uttaranchal and at isolated places in Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, east Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh. Weather was dry in the rest of the region. The chief amounts of rainfall in cm are: Himachal Pradesh: Bangana 3 and Dehragopipur 2, east Rajasthan: Kaman 1, east Uttar Pradesh: Katerniaghat 4, Bani, Mukhlishpur and Shardanagar 2 each and Basti and Baharaich 1 each, west Uttar Pradesh: Ankinghat 2 and Uttaranchal: Dehradun 1.

Forecast valid until the morning of July 25: Rain or thundershowers will occur at many places in Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, east Uttar Pradesh and Uttaranchal, at a few places in PUnjab, east Rajasthan and west Uttar Pradesh and at isolated places in the rest of the region.

Forecast for Delhi and neighbourhood valid until the morning of July 25: Partly cloudy sky with possibility of rain/thundershowers in some areas.

Farmers weather bulletin for Delhi forecast valid until the morning of July 25: Light rain is likely at a few places.

Outlook for the subsequent two days: No large change.

Scanty rainfall to impact kharif crop
Our Correspondent

Ludhiana, July 23
According to the latest forecast update provided by the medium-range Weather Forecasting Centre, there are prospects of rain from tomorrow. However, the main impact of the monsoon will be in Central India while Punjab and the surrounding areas are expected to have isolated showers during the next five days.

Dr Lal Singh Brar, Professor and Head, Department of Agronomy and Agrometereology, Punjab Agricultural University, said the scanty rainfall during the current kharif season had aggravated the problem of irrigation water. Moreover, the electricity supply to the agriculture sector was also limited and erratic, resulting in huge expenditure to farmers for making alternative arrangements of fuel.

Experts of PAU have advised farmers not to transplant paddy at present and divert whatever irrigation water is available to the already transplanted crop so tat the desired yield can be obtained.