India weather report, November 25

North: Isolated places: Jammu and Kashmir./*, mainly dry: Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Haryana, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan.

Central: mainly dry.

Peninsula: most places: south coastal Tamil Nadu+++, many places: interior Tamil Nadu++, north coastal Tamil Nadu++, Kerala++, a few places: south coastal Andhra Pradesh, Rayalaseema, south interior Karnataka, isolated places: north coastal Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, coastal and north interior Karnataka, mainly dry: Gujarat state, Konkan and Goa, Madhya Maharashtra, Marathwada.

Islands: many places: Andaman and Nicobar++, Lakshadweep++.

Temperature recorded in four metropolitan centres were:

Kolkata max 28 (-1) dc/min 17 (n)

New Delhi max 25 (-2) dc/min 9 (-1) dc

Chennai max 30 (+1) dc/min 26 (+4) dc

Mumbai max 35 (+3) dc/min 22 (n)

The low pressure area over Sri Lanka and neighbourhood now lies as a well marked low pressure area over the same region Associated cyclonic circulation extends upto mid tropospheric levels. System is likely to concentrate into a Depression. The trough of low at sea level over southwest Bay of Bengal persists. The cyclonic circulation over Nagaland-Manipur-Mizoram-Tripura and neighbourhood persists and now extends upto 3.6 kms a.s.l.

The western disturbance as an upper air system over Jammu and Kashmir and neighbourhood has moved away northeastwards. A fresh western disturbance as an upper air system lies over north Pakistan and neighbourhood. A cyclonic circulation extending upto 4.5 kms a.s.l. lies over Punjab and neighbourhood. Above two systems are likely to moved eastnortheastwards.

Night temperatures were appreciably to markedly below normal in some parts of Jharkhand, Bihar, West Madhya Pradesh, Saurashtra and Kutch and of Vidarbha and were below normal in some parts of Assam and Meghalaya, Orissa, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, east Rajasthan, Gujarat Region and of Madhya Maharashtra.

They were appreciably to markedly above normal in some parts of Himachal Pradesh, west Rajasthan and of Tamil Nadu and were above normal in some parts of coastal Andhra Pradesh and of Kerala. They were normal over the rest of the country.

The northeast monsoon has been vigorous in Tamil Nadu.

Realised rainfall and chief amounts (in cms) during past 24 hrs at:

East: isolated places: Sub-Himalayan and West Bengal and Sikkim, mainly dry: Arunachal Pradesh, Assam and Meghalaya, Nagaland-Manipur-Mizoram-Tripura, West Bengal and Sikkim, Orissa, Jharkhand, Bihar. Gangtok 0.3.

North: mainly dry. Central: mainly dry.

Peninsula: many places: Tamil Nadu++, a few places: Kerala, mainly dry: Gujarat state, Konkan and Goa, Madhya Maharashtra, Marathwada, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka. Pamban 15.5, Tiruchirapalli 8.6, Vedamniyam 8.2, Karaikal 7.7, Tondi 7.3, Nagapattinam 7.2, Thiruvanthapuram city 0.6, Cochi 0.3, Alapuzha 0.1.

Islands: most places: Lakshadweep, isolated places: Andaman and Nicobar. Car Nicobar 5.6, Agathi 2.5, Minicoy 0.4, Amini Divi 0.3, Nancowry 0.1.

+++=Heavy to very heavy rain at a few places. ++= Heavy to very heavy rain at isolated places and. /*=rain or snow.