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THE TRIBUNE SPECIALS

50 YEARS OF INDEPENDENCE

TERCENTENARY CELEBRATIONS

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

Ambala	34.4	24.6
Amritsar	35.3	20.2
Bhuntar	23.0	17.5
Hisar	36.0	26.3
Jammu	34.5	23.5
Ludhiana	33.0	23.4
Patiala	33.9	25.5
Shimla	19.6	15.7
Srinagar	28.0	12.2
Sundernagar	27.4	19.9

NATION

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

Station	Max	Min	R	TR
Ahmedabad	32	25	0	901
Bangalore	29	19	19	368
Baroda	33	26	0	961
Bhopal	27	21	12	898
Bhubaneswar	34	27	10	1235
Kolkata	34	27	—	973
Chennai	37	27	0	424
Dehra Dun	29	22	3	1398
Gangtok	20	17	13	1890
Guwahati	33	27	3	1236
Hyderabad	32	22	0	486
Jaipur	34	25	0	457
Jammu	33	23	0	—
Lucknow	34	25	4	609
Mumbai	31	27	0	1735
Nagpur	38	24	0	984
New Delhi	33	27	0	989
Panjim	30	25	0	2542
Patna	32	27	3	844
Ranchi	28	21	—	966
Shillong	24	16	1	1390
Thiruvananthapuram	32	23	—	435

Rain in east Rajasthan
Tribune News Service

New Delhi, September 10
Rainfall: Rain or thundershowers have occurred at many places in east Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Uttaranchal and at a few places in Himachal Pradesh. Weather was mainly dry in the rest of the region. The chief amounts of rainfall in cm are: Himachal Pradesh — Bhanjar and Dhundhi 2 each; east Rajasthan — Bhainsroadgarh 8, Kothari Dam 7, Anta 3, Jaitpura, Khanpur, Rawatbhata and Sawanbhado 2 each and Baran, Bhawani Mandi, Chhipa Barod, Digod, Jhalawar, Pirawa, Shahbad and Sagod 1 each; east Uttar Pradesh — Fatehgarh 17, Auriya 14, Ankinghat 10, Banda, Chillaghat and Kanpur 9 each, Neemsar 5, Bani, Bhatpurwaghat, Etwah, Hanumansatu and Varanasi AP 3 each, Dalmau, Jaunpur and Mirzapur 2 each and Allahabad and Palliakalan 1 each; west Uttar Pradesh — Kalpi 19, Mohana 17, Hamirpur and Shahjina 8 each, Bareilly 3 and Dabri 1; and Uttaranchal — Pantnagar 5, Banbasa 4 and Joshimath and Uttarkashi 1 each.

Forecast valid until the morning of September 12, 2003: Rain or thundershowers will occur at many places in Himachal Pradesh, east Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Uttaranchal, at a few places in Haryana, Jammu and Kashmir and Punjab and at isolated places in west Rajasthan.

Heavy rainfall warning: Heavy rain with isolated very heavy rain fall will occur in Uttar Pradesh during the next 48 hours. Isolated heavy rain is also likely in Himachal Pradesh, east Rajasthan and Uttaranchal during the same period.

Forcast for Delhi and neighbourhood valid until the morning of September 12, 2003: Mainly cloudy sky with one or two spells of rain/thundershowers, may be heavy in some areas.

Farmers’ weather bulletin for Delhi: forecast valid until the morning of September 12, 2003: Light to moderate rain will occur at many places.

Outlook for the subsequent two days: Increase in rainfall likely.