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Read under headings Max (maximum temperature), Min (minimum temperature), R (rainfall in past 24 hours) and TR (Total rain since October 1):

Station	Max	Min	R	TR
Ahmedabad	36	26	0	183
Allahabad	40	31	0	100
Bangalore	31	19	0	184
Baroda	35	27	0	282
Bhopal	35	25	0	114
Bhubaneswar	33	27	0	248
Chennai	39	25	7	17
Dehra Dun	33	25	0	161
Gangtok	21	19	18	1102
Guwahati	31	28	3	467
Hyderabad	34	23	4	169
Indore	32	23	0	191
Jaipur	38	29	0	49
Jamshedpur	35	27	0	465
Kolkata	34	29	0	546
Lucknow	40	29	0	150
Mumbai	32	25	5	459
Nagpur	35	25	0	347
New Delhi	39	32	0	48
Panjim	31	25	7	1073
Patna	37	29	0	265
Pune	29	23	0	202
Shillong	24	19	2	865
Thiruvananthapuram	31	24	0	189

Rain likely in Himachal, J&K
Tribune News Service

New Delhi, July 9
Rainfall: Rain or thundershowers have occurred at isolated places in Himachal Pradesh and east Uttar Pradesh. Weather was dry in the rest of the region.

Forecast valid until the morning of July 11: Rain or thundershowers are likely at isolated places in Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir and east Uttar Pradesh. Duststorms or thunderstorms are likely at isolated places in west Rajasthan. Weather will be mainly dry in the rest of the region.

Forecast for Delhi and neighbourhood valid until the morning of July 11: Partly cloudy sky with possibility of thundery development in some areas.

Farmers’ weather bulletin for Delhi: forecast valid until the morning of July 11: Development of thunderclouds is likely at a few places.

Outlook for the subsequent two days: No large change.

Monsoon may take few days to revive

Chandigarh, July 9
As rains continued to elude Punjab and Haryana for the fourth consecutive day, the Meteorological Department here said that there were little chances of any rainfall during the next two days as the south-west monsoon in the region had gone “weak” at the moment. What is happening now is that monsoon trough — excess of low

pressure area — which should have been in the plains at the moment has shifted closer to the Himalayas. This is the reason why we are not having any rains in this part of the country at present,” Director of the Meteorological Department S. C. Bhan told PTI here today.

He said that barring those parts of the country which were closer to the Himalayas, the monsoon activity in many other parts had become less active.

“Now as there is some activity going on in the Bay of Bengal, it may lead to formation of a system that could help in building a pressure area which pulls back this trough from the Himalayas,” he said.

Mr Bhan said that many parts of Punjab and Haryana were yet to receive monsoon showers. “The showers which lashed Punjab and Haryana a few days back, were no doubt monsoon showers, but they were limited to the areas bordering Himachal Pradesh where monsoon was initially very active.”

He said that even in most parts of Himachal Pradesh the south-west monsoon had grown weak.

As rains continue to elude the people of this northern region, it may take another few days before monsoon arrives in its full fury. PTI