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	31.7	18.2
Amritsar	35.6	17.4
Bhuntar	—	10.2
Hisar	37.0	23.7
Jammu	—	24.2
Karnal	31.2	18.9
Ludhiana	31.2	21.2
Patiala	31.3	19.9
Shimla	19.1	11.5
Srinagar	—	09.0
Sundernagar	20.9	13.5

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	39	27	0	1
Bangalore	34	23	0	91
Bhopal	37	23	0	15
Bhubaneswar	36	21	tr	92
Chennai	35	27	0	165
Dehra Dun	31	16	5	65
Gangtok	18	12	2	531
Guwahati	29	20	10	295
Hyderabad	38	23	0	44
Jaipur	35	22	2	27
Kolkata	34	23	tr	201
Lucknow	31	20	0	12
Mumbai	33	24	0	0
New Delhi	36	22	0	39
Panjim	36	24	0	45
Patna	32	20	3	8
Ranchi	29	18	tr	16
Shillong	20	13	16	234
Thiruvananthapuram	34	25	0	313

Jaisalmer records region’s maximum temperature
Tribune News Service

New Delhi, May 1
Rainfall: Rain/thundershowers have occurred at many places in Uttaranchal, at a few places in Rajasthan and at isolated places in Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir and east Uttar Pradesh. Weather was mainly dry in the rest of the region. The chief amounts of rainfall in cm are: Himachal Pradesh: Sundernagar 1, east Rajasthan: Udaipur AP 2, West Rajasthan: Jaisalmer 4 and Jodhpur 1 and Uttaranchal: Pantnagar and Tehri 1 each.

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

Departure: They were largely below normal in Uttar Pradesh, appreciably below normal in east Rajasthan and Uttaranchal, below normal in Haryana, Punjab and west Rajasthan and normal in the rest of the region. The higher maximum temperature in the region was 39°C recorded at Jaisalmer (Rajasthan).

Forecast valid until the morning of May 3: Rain/thunderhsowers will occur at many places in Himachal Pradesh and Uttaranchal, at a few places in Haryana, Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, east Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh and at isolated places in west Rajasthan. Isolated thundersqualls are likely in Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab and Uttaranchal.

Forecast for Delhi and neighbourhood valid until the morning of May 3: Partly cloudy sky with possibility of light rain/thunderhsowers accompaned with squall in some areas. The maximum temperature will be around 34°C.

Farmers weather bulletin for Delhi: Forecast valid until the morning of May 3: Light rain is likely at a few places. Squall with wind speed exceeding 65 kmph is likely at isolated places.

Outlook for the subsequent two days: No large change.