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	33.8	16.3
Amritsar	32.6	15.0
Bhuntar	25.6	11.0
Hisar	33.3	18.8
Jammu	—	16.3
Karnal	33.5	16.9
Ludhiana	32.6	14.8
Patiala	32.5	16.1
Rohtak	—	18.3
Shimla	20.0	9.7
Srinagar	—	6.7
Sundernagar	20.0	12.1

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	41	25	0	—
Bangalore	31	22	1	91
Bhopal	40	23	tr	15
Bhubaneswar	39	27	0	92
Chennai	36	28	0	164
Dehra Dun	33	18	0	61
Gangtok	16	13	18	502
Hyderabad	38	25	0	44
Jaipur	38	19	5	10
Kolkata	39	28	0	200
Lucknow	41	24	0	12
Mumbai	33	26	0	0
New Delhi	37	21	2	39
Panjim	33	26	0	45
Patna	41	24	1	5
Ranchi	38	—	—	—
Shillong	23	13	2	249
Thiruvananthapuram	34	27	0	313

Allahabad records region’s maximum at 42.5°C
Tribune News Service

New Delhi, April 28
Rainfall: Rain/thundershowers have occurred at many places in east Rajasthan, at a few places in Haryana, Jammu and Kashmir and west Rajasthan and at isolated places in Himachal Pradesh and Punjab. Weather was mainly dry in the rest of the region. The chief amounts of rainfall in cm. are: Haryana: Hissar 2 and Rohtak 1, Punjab: Amritsar 2 and East Rajasthan: Ajmer 1.

Temperature: Past 24 hours change: The maximum temperatures fell appreciably in Punjab, fell in Jammu and Kashmir and west Rajasthan, rose in Himachal Pradesh and east Uttar Pradesh and changed little elsewhere.

Departure: They were markedly below normal in Punjab, appreciably below normal in Jammu and Kashmir, below normal in Haryana and west Rajasthan, above normal in east Uttar Pradesh and normal in the rest of the region. The highest maximum temperature in the region was 42.5°C recorded at Allahabad (Uttar Pradesh).

Forecast valid until the morning of April 30: Rain/thundershowers will occur at many places in Himachal Pradesh and Uttaranchal, at a few places in Jammu and Kashmir, east Rajasthan and west Uttar Pradesh and at isolated places in Haryana and Punjab.Isolated duststorm/thunderstorm is likely in east Uttar Pradesh and west Rajasthan. Isolated thundersqualls are likely in Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Uttaranchal.

Outlook for the subsequent two days: No large change.