The Tribune, Chandigarh, India

SPECIAL COVERAGE

CHANDIGARH

DELHI

THE TRIBUNE SPECIALS

50 YEARS OF INDEPENDENCE

TERCENTENARY CELEBRATIONS

Extremes
Town	Max (in Celsius)	Min (in Celsius)
Ambala	37.2	26.5
Amritsar	38.1	26.0
Bhuntar	35.3	20.6
Chandigarh	37.2	26.8
Hisar	—	28.4
Karnal	36.2	27.6
Ludhiana	37.8	26.7
Patiala	38.0	29.0
Shimla	23.2	16.3
Sundernagar	34.8	21.8

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	40	28	0	42
Allahabad	37	22	0	35
Bangalore	25	20	tr	42
Bhopal	36	26	0	65
Bhubaneswar	31	25	13	105
Chennai	34	26	0	66
Dehra Dun	35	24	2	31
Guwahati	35	26	0	221
Hyderabad	26	22	11	89
Jaipur	38	27	0	5
Jamshedpur	31	25	21	121
Kolkata	32	27	7	209
Kodaikanal	15	22	2	76
Lucknow	36	27	0	88
Mangalore	26	23	631	028
Nagpur	37	29	0	122
New Delhi	37	29	0	122
Patna	35	27	tr	138
Shillong	24	18	01	517
Surat	37	26	04	31
Tiruchirapalli	35	27	0	46
Thiruvananthapuram	28	24	15	317
Udaipur	36	27	0	105
Visakhapatnam	28	25	53	222

Rainfall likely to increase

New Delhi, June 24
Rainfall: Rain/thundershowers have occurred at a few places in Jammu and Kashmir and at isolated places in Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, west Rajasthan and Uttranchal. Weather was mainly dry in the rest of the region. The chief amounts of rainfall in cm are: Himachal Pradesh: Shimla 2, Jammu and Kashmir: Katra 1, Punjab: Sahapurkandi 2 and Madhopur and Pathankot 1 each and west Rajasthan: Sriganganagar 1.

Temperature: The maximum temperature changed little. They were appreciably below normal in Haryana and Punjab, below normal in Jammu and Kashmir and west Uttar Pradesh and normal in the rest of the region. The highest temperature in the region was 44.2°C recorded at Barmer (Rajasthan).

Forecast valid until the morning of June 26: Rain/thundershowers are likely at isolated places over the region.

Outlook for the subsequent two days: Rainfall activity in the region is likely to increase.

Forecast for Delhi and neighbourhood valid until the morning of June 26: Warm and humid day with partly cloudy sky. Possibility of thundry development in some areas. The maximum temperature will be around 38°C.

Farmer’s weather bulletin for Delhi: Forecast valid until the morning of June 26: Development of thunderclouds likely at a few places.

Outlook for the subsequent two days: Rainfall activity likely to increase.

No relief from heat, humidity in Capital

New Delhi, June 24
The hot and humid weather prevailing over Delhi over the past two days continued today with the mercury rising to 37.7°C.

The rise in mercury to 37.7°C, coupled with a high humidity of 78 per cent, left people sweltering under the Sun.

Despite Easterlies providing some coolness in the air, heat and humidity kept most Delhiites indoors during the day even as rains continued to elude the city, after a series of spells of pre-monsoon rains last weekend.

The hot conditions could prevail tomorrow with the weatherman forecasting a rise in maximum temperature to 38°C.

Relief could soon be in offing for Delhiites in the coming week with the Met office saying that the monsoon is likely to arrive in the national capital as scheduled around June 29.

With the numerical weather prediction models suggesting formation of a fresh low pressure area over the Northwest Bay of Bengal and its neighbourhood around June 26, conditions are favourable for the onset of Southwest monsoon in Delhi at around the scheduled date, IMD Director S C Bhan said.

The Met office has forecast a warm and humid day tomorrow with a partly cloudy sky in Delhi during the next 24 hours. They have also forecast a likelihood of thundry development in some areas. — UNI