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

Ambala	43.2	22.8
Amritsar	44.3	23.0
Bhuntar	35.0	12.7
Hisar	45.9	28.5
Jammu	42.1	26.0
Karnal	42.7	23.5
Ludhiana	43.9	23.9
Patiala	43.4	23.6
Rohtak	—	27.9
Shimla	29.3	19.3
Srinagar	29.7	11.3
Sundernagar	39.0	18.0

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	42	28	0	0
Allahabad	45	31	0	0
Bangalore	32	23	0	68
Bhopal	43	28	0	0
Bhubaneswar	42	29	tr	tr
Chennai	41	29	tr	1
Dehra Dun	23	15	0	0
Gangtok	23	15	0	7
Guwahati	33	25	0	7
Hyderabad	41	28	0	4
Jaipur	42	29	0	0
Jammu	41	26	0	0
Kolkata	38	30	0	0
Lucknow	44	30	0	0
Mumbai	34	28	0	1
Nagpur	47	32	0	1
New Delhi	43	29	0	0
Patna	45	28	0	0
Shimla	27	19	0	1
Sholapur	41	28	0	0
Srinagar	28	11	0	0
Thiruvananthapuram	32	25	0	10
Viskhapatnam	41	31	0	27

Sriganganagar records 45.5°C
Tribune News Service

New Delhi, June 4
Rainfall: Weather was mainly dry in the region.

Temperature: Past 24 hours change: The maximum temperatures changed little. Departure: They were appreciably above normal n east Uttar Pradesh, above normal in Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan, west Uttar Pradesh and Uttaranchal and normal in the rest of the region. The highest maximum temperature in the region was 45.5°C recorded at Sriganganagar (Rajasthan).

Forecast valid until the morning of June 6: Isolated rain/thundershowers are likely in Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir and Uttaranchal. Isolated duststorm/thunderstorm is likely in Haryana, Punjab, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh.

Forecast for Delhi and neighbourhood valid until the morning of June 6: Partly cloudy sky with dust haze. Duststorm/thunderstorm accompanied with squall is likely in some areas. The maximum temperature will be around 43°C.

Farmers’ weather bulletin for Delhi forecast valid until the morning of June 6: Duststorm/thunderstorm is likely at a few places. Squall wth wind speed exceeding 65 kmph is likely at isolated places.

Outlook for the subsequent two days: No large change.

Hisar hottest at 45.9ºC

Chandigarh, June 4
As blistering heat wave swept most parts of North India today, Hisar in Haryana turned out to be the hottest recording a high of 45.9ºC while people in Amritsar suffered under sweltering conditions as the mercury rose to 44.3ºC.

The heat wave which intensified at several places in the region during the past few days provided little respite to the residents of Chandigarh, where the maximum temperature today shot by three degrees above normal to record 42.6ºC, the Meteorological Department said here.

Ambala also braved some hot weather recording a two degrees above normal high at 43.2ºC. Karnal was also hot at 42.7ºC, which was three degrees above the normal range.

In Punjab, Ludhiana was the second hottest place after Amritsar recording a high of 43.9ºC, two degrees above normal. Patiala also recorded a near similar maximum at 43.4ºC, up by two degrees.

Many places in Himachal Pradesh also recorded some above normal maximum temperatures. — PTI