Weather forecast valid till June 19

East: most places: Gangetic West Bengal#, north Orissa#, Jharkhand#, many places: Arunachal Pradesh+, Assam and Meghalaya++, Nagaland-Manipur-Mizoram-Tripura++, Sub-Himalayan West Bengal and Sikkim, Bihar++, Isolated places: south Orissa++.

North: many places: Uttar Pradesh+, Uttarakhand+, Haryana+, Haryana+, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh+, Haryana+, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh+, a few places: Jammu and Kashmir, East Rajasthan. Isolated places: west Rajasthan.

Central: many places: east Madhya Pradesh, Chattisgarh++, a few places west Madhya Pradesh, Vidarbha.

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

Islands: a few places: Andaman and Nicobar, Lakshadweep.

Temperature recorded in four metro politan centres were: Kolkata: max 31 (-3) dc/ min 25 (-2) dc

New Delhi: max 29 (-11) dc/ min 26 (-3) dc

Chennai: max 38 (+1) dc/ min 28 (nil)

Mumbai: max 31 (-1) dc/ min 27 (+1) dc

The Depression over north Bay of Bengal off Bangladesh coast moved in a northwesterly direction and crossed Bangladesh coast near Long 89.5 degree east between 1630 and 1730 UTC of Monday, the 16th June 2008 and lay over coastal Bangladesh centered within half a degree of Lat 22.0 degree North/Long 89.5 degree east, about 130 kms east-southeast of Kolkata. It further moved in a northwesterly direction and now lies centered over Gangetic West Bengal and adjoining Bangladesh centered close to Krishnanagar, about 80 kms north-northeast of Kolkata.

System is likely to move in a northwesterly direction.

The off-shore trough at sea level from Maharashtra coast to Kerala coast persists. The trough at sea level passes through Anupgarh, Sikar, Aligarh, Kanpur, Gaya, centre of Depression and thence southeastwards to east central Bay of Bengal. The cyclonic circulation over east Uttar Pradesh and adjoining Bihar now lies over east Uttar Pradesh and neighbourhood and now extends upto 2.1 kms a.s.l.

The western disturbance as an upper air system extending upto 3.6 kms a.s.l. over Jammu and Kashmir and neighbourhood persists. A cyclonic circulation extends upto 2.1 kms a.s.l.

lies over central Pakistan and adjoining northwest Rajasthan.

Above two systems are likely to move east-northeastwards. The cyclonic over east Rajasthan and adjoining Haryana has become less marked.

Footnotes:

# Heavy to very heavy rain at a few places with extremely heavy rain at isolated places

++ Heavy to very heavy rain at isolated places

+ Heavy rain at isolated places and

* Very light rain isolated places