Following is the All India Weather Evening Bulletin as given by the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) is as below:

Monsoon Watch

♦ The Northern Limit of Monsoon (NLM) continues to pass through Lat 21.0°N/ Long. 60.0° E, Lat 21.0°N/ Long. 65.0°E, Veraval, Navsari, Malegaon, Betul, Jabalpur, Sidhi, Varanasi, Gorakhpur and Lat 28.0°N/ Long. 83.0°E.

Main Weather Observations

♦ RAINFALL (From 0830 hours IST of yesterday to 0830 hours IST of today): Rainfall occurred at most places along west Coast; at many places over Madhya Maharashtra, interior Karnataka, SubHimalayan West Bengal & Sikkim, Andaman & Nicobar Islands and Lakshadweep; at a few places over Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, northeastern states, Rayalaseema and Tamilnadu and at one or two places over Haryana, east Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Gangetic West Bengal, Orissa, south Gujarat region, rest interior Maharashtra and rest Andhra Pradesh. Weather remained mainly dry over rest parts of the country.

The chief amounts of rainfall (2 cm or more ) recorded at 0830 hours IST of today are: Mayabandar, Ratanagiri and Cannur 8 each, Goa 7, Jagdalpur and Dharamapuri 5 each, Mahabaleshwar, Chennai and Mangalore(Bajpe) 4 each, Mangalore(Panambur), Dhanu, Alibag, Mumbai(Colaba), Vengurla, Arogyavaram, Agathi, Cochin and Bhopal 3 each and Yercaud, Honavar, Kozhikode, Karwar, Sagar, Harnai, Mumbai, Salem and Chennai 2 each.

♦ CLOUDS: Kalpana1

Cloud imagery at 1430 hours IST shows convective clouds over parts of coastal Orissa, northcoastal Andhra Pradesh, Gangetic West Bengal, north, central & southeast Bay of Bengal, eastcentral & south Arabian Sea and Andaman sea. Low/medium clouds are seen over rest parts of the country outside Punjab, west Uttar Pradesh, west Rajasthan and Gujarat.

Synoptic Features based on 1430 hours IST

♦ The upper air cyclonic circulation over westcentral and adjoining north Bay of Bengal

between 3.6 to 5.8 Km above mean sea level persists.

♦ The off shore trough at mean sea level from Konkan coast to Kerala coast persists.

♦ An upper air cyclonic circulation lies over northeast Bay of Bengal and adjoining Gangetic

West Bengal and Bangladesh extends upto 3.1 Km above mean sea levels.

♦ The western disturbance as an upper air system over Jammu & Kashmir & neighbourhood

persists.

Major Feature of Weather Forecast up to 0830 hours IST of 02nd July, 2012

♦ Rain/thundershowers would occur at most places over west coast and Lakshadweep.

♦ Rain/thundershowers would occur at many places over SubHimalayan West Bengal & Sikkim, northeastern states and Andaman & Nicobar Islands.

♦ Rain/thundershowers would also occur at many places over Orissa, south Chhattisgarh,

Vidarbha and north Andhra Pradesh.

♦ Rain/thundershowers would occur at a few places over Jharkhand, Bihar, north Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Madhya Maharashtra, Marathwada, interior Karnataka, south Gujarat region and Gangetic West Bengal during next 48 hours and at many places thereafter. Rain/thundershowers would occur at ♦ one or two places over rest parts of the country.

Weather Warning

♦ Heavy rainfall would occur at one or two places over Konkan & Goa, Coastal Karnataka and

Kerala during next 48 hours.

Weather Outlook for subsequent 4 days up to 0830 hours IST of 06th July, 2012

♦ Rain/thundershowers would occur at many places along west coast and over east and

adjoining central India and northeastern states.

♦ Increase in rainfall activity over northwest India.

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