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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	33.6	22.0
Amritsar	33.6	21.4
Bhuntar	30.5	13.1
Hisar	—	23.3
Karnal	—	20.8
Ludhiana	33.7	21.9
Patiala	33.3	21.1
Rohtak	—	23.4
Shimla	24.5	14.2
Srinagar	—	08.4
Sundernagar	31.5	15.6

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	32	23	0	0
Bangalore	29	20	29	29
Bhopal	33	21	0	0
Bhubaneswar	33	26	1	1
Chennai	33	25	0	0
Dehra Dun	31	20	0	0
Gangtok	22	17	22	22
Guwahati	32	25	0	0
Hyderabad	32	23	0	0
Jaipur	34	22	0	0
Kolkata	32	26	tr	tr
Lucknow	35	24	0	0
Mumbai	27	23	8	8
New Delhi	34	24	0	0
Panjim	31	22	0	0
Patna	33	25	0	0
Ranchi	31	20	0	0
Shillong	23	17	12	12
Shimla	25	14	0	0
Thiruvananthapuram	32	23	0	0

Rain likely in Himachal
Tribune News Service

New Delhi, October 1
Rainfall: Rain/thundershowers have occurred at isolated places in east Uttar Pradesh. Weather was dry in the rest of the region.

Temperatures: Past 24 hours change: The maximum temperatures changed little. Departure: They were appreciably above normal in Himachal Pradesh, above normal in east Rajasthan and east Uttar Pradesh and normal in the rest of the region. The highest temperature in the region was 38.3°C recorded at Sriganganagar (Rajasthan).

Past 24 hours change: The minimum temperatures changed little. Departure: They were normal over the region. The lowest temperature in the plains was 20.2°C recorded at Rawatbhata (Rajasthan).

Forecast valid until the morning of October 3: Rain/thundershowers are likely at isolated places in Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir. Weather will be mainly dry in the rest of the region.

Forecast for Delhi and neighbourhood valid until the morning of October 3: Mainly clear sky. The maximum and minimum temperatures will be around 34°C and 23°C respectively.

Farmers weather bulletin for Delhi forecast valid until the morning of October 3: Sky will be mainly clear.

Outlook for the subsequent two days: No large change.

Monsoon 1 pc deficient
Tribune News Service

New Delhi, October 1
The performance of the monsoon this year has not been so dismal after all. As the met department gets ready to pat its back (it predicted a near-normal monsoon at the beginning of the season), a sneak preview of its end-of-the-season monsoon report card shows that overall the country has experienced just 1 per cent rainfall deficiency.

This should bring a sigh of relief to the otherwise harried met officials, who have been on the receiving end of lot of criticism with some of its critical monsoon predictions having gone haywire in the past couple of years.

The end-of-the-season report will be issued two days after the monsoon officially bids adieu tomorrow. And there is not expected to be much change in rainfall figures.

Till Thursday, the country recorded 872.8 mm rainfall as against the normal of 884.4 mm, in all a total deficiency of just 1 per cent.

The north-west received 550 mm rainfall as against the normal of 608.7 mm and managed to recover quite well from the dismal state of 22 per cent deficiency it was in just 20 days back to 10 per cent as on the date.

In fact, at present Haryana is 2 per cent surplus with 475 mm rains against 467.7 mm it should normally have received. But Punjab has not been so lucky and has a rainfall deficiency of 7 per cent as it managed to get 465.9 mm against its normal of 499.2 mm. Himachal Pradesh is -8 per cent deficient with 711 mm rainfall against the normal of 770.4 mm. Some parts in western Utter Pradesh and Rajasthan have not done so well in the northwest.

In all, of the four homogeneous regions, Central India with 1092.2 mm rainfall against the normal of 985.6 mm is 11 per cent in the surplus and southern peninsula with 798.5 mm rainfall against the normal of 711.2 mm is also 12 per cent in the positive.