The Tribune, Chandigarh, India

NATION

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	32	24	1	268
Bangalore	25	19	tr	234
Bhopal	29	23	0	274
Bhubaneswar	33	27	0	726
Chennai	34	28	0	133
Dehra Dun	25	23	15	586
Gangtok	21	18	42	1794
Guwahati	31	27	3	769
Hyderabad	30	21	30	381
Indore	—	21	1	297
Jaipur	34	25	0	111
Kolkata	32	26	107	969
Kolhapur	26	21	12	428
Lucknow	29	25	2	266
Mumbai	29	25	15	1025
Nagpur	31	23	tr	518
New Delhi	33	25	3	62
Panjim	28	25	1	1734
Patna	31	26	54	582
Thiruvananthapuram	30	22	0	270
Udaipur	32	23	29	170
Visakhapatnam	34	26	1	253

HP, UP may have heavy rain
Tribune News Service

New Delhi, August 12
Rainfall: Rain or thundershowers have occurred at most places in east Uttar Pradesh and Uttaranchal, at many places in Jammu and Kashmir, east Rajasthan and west Uttar Pradesh and at a few places in Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Punjab. Weather was mainly dry in west Rajasthan. The chief amounts of rainfall in cm are: Haryana: Ambala and Tajewala 1 each, Himachal Pradesh: Dharamsala 5, Bhang and Nahan 3 each, Baijnath, Dhundhi and Solangnala 2 each and Bhuntar and Sujanpurtira 1 each, Jammu and Kashmir: Jammu and Pahalgam 2 each and Srinagar 1, Punjab: Mukerian 1, East Rajasthan: Kumehar 6, Bharatpur, Bagana, Deeg and Govindgarh 5 each, Baratha and Sever 4 each, Ajandam, Kaman Laxmangarh and Sevalahead 3 each, Arnodh, Bahadurpur, Helana, Nadbai, Rajgarh, Roopwas and Todabhim 2 each and Alwar and Nadhoti 1 each, east Uttar Pradesh: Palliakalan 13, Varanasi A.P. 11, Sultanpur 8, Chandradeepghat and Shardanagar 5 each, Ghazipur and Katerniaghat 4 each, Basti, Bhatpurwaghat, Fatehgarh, Neemsar and Turtipar 3 each, Ballia and Elginbridge 2 each and Allahabad, Aodhya, Bansi, Chillaghat and Jaunpur 1 each, West Uttar Pradesh: Bareilly 11, Narora 10, Dabri 9, Agra 5, Mathura 3 and Etawah 2 and Uttaranchal: Banbasa 17, Pantnagar 11, Marora 4, Hardwar 3, Uttarkashi 2 and Dehra Dun and Tehri 1 each.

Forecast valid until the morning of August 14: Rain or thundershowers will occur at many places in Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Uttaranchal, at a few places in Haryana, Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab and east Rajasthan and at isolated places in west Rajasthan.

Heavy rainfall warning: Heavy rain is likely at isolated places in Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Uttaranchal during the next 48 hours.

Forecast for Delhi and neighbourhood valid until the morning of August 14: Generally cloudy sky with rain/thundershowers.

Farmers weather bulletin for Delhi forecast valid until the morning of August 14: Light to moderate rain will occur at many places.

Outlook for the subsequent two days: No large change.

Monsoon gets active

Chandigarh, August 12
The south-west monsoon continued to be active for the second day, causing light to moderate to heavy rains in Himachal, Jammu and Kashmir and the north-eastern areas of Punjab and Haryana in the past 24 hours.

Weathermen here warned of heavy rains at isolated places in Himachal Pradesh, besides moderate to rather heavy rains at many places, adjoining areas of J and K and at a few places in the plains over the next 48 hours.

However, monsoon activity being restricted, southern and western parts of Punjab, Haryana and northern parts of Rajasthan would stay bereft of the rains.

The day temperature in and around Chandigarh hovered around 29°C under an overcast sky and 0.8 mm more rainfall overnight. Ambala in Haryana reported 12.8 mm rainfall.

Amritsar (1.8 mm), Ludhiana (2 mm) and Patiala (0.2 mm) were the main stations in Punjab reporting rain.

Dharamsala in Himachal Pradesh was deluged with 48 mm rainfall while Shimla reported 1.8 mm rainfall. Bhang Manali (25.2 mm), Nahan (24.5 mm), Dhundi (17.5 mm), Solang Nallah (17.3 mm), Sujanpur Tira (11.5 mm) and Bhuntar (12.4 mm) were among the stations reporting widespread rain.

A number of stations in the catchment areas of the Sutlej and Beas reported 1 mm to 3.5 mm fresh rain. These included Gamrur, Nangal Dam, Nadaun, RL-1700, Guler, Nagrota Surian, Pandoh, Kasol and Sunder Nagar. UNI