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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	25.1	10.6
Amritsar	24.4	5.6
Bhuntar	25.0	4.3
Hisar	—	13.3
Karnal	23.5	10.4
Ludhiana	25.7	9.9
Patiala	25.3	9.6
Shimla	20.2	10.3
Srinagar	—	-1.2
Sundernagar	26.3	5.8

NATION

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

Stations	Max	Min	R	TR
Ahmedabad	34	17	0	0
Bangalore	29	14	0	1
Bhopal	33	15	0	0
Bhubaneswar	33	17	0	0
Chennai	30	21	0	2
Dehra Dun	25	11	0	18
Gangtok	18	09	0	2
Guwahati	27	13	0	0
Hyderabad	30	15	0	0
Jaipur	30	13	0	0
Kolkata	29	15	0	0
Lucknow	28	10	0	0
Mumbai	35	19	0	0
New Delhi	28	9	0	0
Panjim	34	19	0	0
Patna	27	10	0	0
Ranchi	28	9	0	0
Shillong	18	9	0	0
Thiruvananthapuram	33	22	0	32

Rain likely in J&K
Tribune News Service

New Delhi, February 2
Rainfall: Weather was dry over the region.

Temperatures: Past 24 hours change: The minimum temperatures fell in Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir and Punjab, rose in east Uttar Pradesh and changed little elsewhere.

Departure: This was markedly above normal in Himachal Pradesh and Rajasthan, appreciably above normal in Haryana, west Uttar Pradesh and Uttaranchal, above normal in Jammu and Kashmir and east Uttar Pradesh and normal in the rest of the region. The lowest temperature in the plains was 5.6°C recorded at Amritsar (Punjab).

Forecast valid until the morning of February 4, 2006: Rain/snow is likely at a few places in Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir and at isolated places in Uttaranchal. Weather will be mainly dry in the rest of the region.

Forecast for Delhi and neighbourhood valid until the morning of
February 4, 2006: Partly cloudy sky. Mist/shallow fog in the morning. The minimum temperature will be around 9°C.

Farmers weather bulletin for Delhi forecast valid until the morning
of February 4, 2006: Sky will be partly cloudy.

Outlook for the subsequent two days: No large change.

Mercury rises in region

Chandigarh, February 2
The mercury appreciably rose in many areas in the north-west India, staying one degree to eight degrees above normal even as the higher reaches in Himachal Pradesh experienced snowfall today.

Several areas, including Adampur, Halwara, Suratgarh, Bathinda and Palam in Delhi, experienced fog, while Pathankot, Sirsa, Ambala and Hindon reported mist in the morning. It was a warm day for the people of the region as the sun shone bright during the day.

The high-altitude areas in Kinnuar district of Himachal Pradesh had another spell of snowfall last night. The entire tribal belt was under the impact of coldwave conditions following snowfall. — UNI