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Insat picture at 11.30 hrs. Observations recorded at 8-30 a.m. on Aug 18.

	Ma	Mi	R	TR
ANDHRA PRADESH
Anantapur	32	24	0	173
Arogyavaram	30	23	0	186
Bapatla	36	27	tr	169
Calingapatnam	34	27	0	263
Gannavaram	35	27	0	406
Hyderabad AP	31	23	4	550
Kakinada	—	28	0	303
Kammam	32	25	4	451
Kavali	35	28	0	65
Kurnool	32	23	0	472
Mahbubnagar	30	—	—	—
Machilipatnam	34	28	tr	283
Nandyal	33	24	0	216
Narasapur	32	27	0	388
Nellore	35	27	0	59
Nizamabad	31	24	tr	724
Ongole	37	29	0	96
Ramagundam	33	26	0	745
Tirupathi AP	36	27	0	201
Tuni	36	2	0	229
Vizag AP	35	29	1	195
Vizag	32	28	0	200
KARNATAKA
Agumbe	23	12	144	5825
Bangalore AP	28	19	4	376
Bangalore	28	20	tr	328
Bagalkote	28	22	0	181
Belgaum AP	26	20	7	784
Belgaum	24	20	16	1203
Bellary	31	—	—	—
Chitradurga	27	20	tr	356
Chikmagalur	—	18	3	509
Gadag	27	20	tr	424
Gulbarga	31	20	26	428
Hassan	25	19	0	579
Hanovar	27	23	8	2878
Karwar	29	24	57	2402
Madikeri	20	16	38	2559
Mangalore AP	27	22	23	2509
Mysore	29	19	0	214
Mandya	—	21	0	240
Panambur	28	23	39	2284
Shirali	30	23	23	2712
KERALA
Alappuzha	31	23	tr	1324
Kannur	30	22	10	1791
Kochi AP	31	24	tr	1600
Kottayam	31	22	0	1463
Kozhikode	29	23	5	1499
Punalur	34	23	0	983
Thiruvanantha
-puram AP	31	24	0	469
Thiruvanantha
-puram City	33	24	0	576
TAMIL NADU
Adiramapattinam	38	21	tr	72
Coimbatore AP	32	22	0	42
Coonoor	23	15	tr	236
Cuddalore	38	27	tr	25
Chennai AP	36	28	0	159
Chennai	36	28	0	223
Dharmapuri	33	25	0	109
Kanyakumari	32	26	0	152
Kodaikanal	19	12	0	283
Madurai AP	40	27	0	77
Nagapattinam	39	27	0	61
Palayamkottai	35	27	0	11
Pamban	34	26	0	8
Parangipettai	37	27	0	45
Pondicherry	39	28	tr	66
Salem	35	25	1	145
Tiruchi AP	37	27	0	26
Tiruchi	37	28	0	38
Tirupattur	34	26	0	177
Tiruttani	39	29	0	16
Tondi	35	26	tr	26
Tuticorin	39	27	0	2
Ooty	15	11	2	436
Valparai	22	18	19	2703
Vellore	37	25	0	117
LAKSHADWEEP
Amini Divi	30	27	2	649
Minicoy	33	29	tr	566
OTHER STATIONS
Kolkata (Alipore)	32	27	0	782
Mumbai	29	24	0	1543
New Delhi	33	27	0	325

The columns show maximum and minimum temperature in Celsius, rainfall during last 24 hours (tr-trace) and total rainfall in mm since June 1, 2005.

Isolated rain likely in Tamil Nadu

CHENNAI: Southwest monsoon has been active over South Interior Karnataka.

Rainfall occurred at most places over coastal Karnataka, at many places over south interior Karnataka and at a few places over Telangana, north interior Karnataka and Kerala.

Isolated rainfall occurred over Tamil Nadu. Mainly dry weather prevailed over coastal Andhra Pradesh, Rayalaseema and Lakshadweep.

Agumbe recorded very heavy rainfall of 14 Centimetres.

The other chief amounts of rainfall recorded in Centimetres are:

Karwar and Dharmasthala (Dakshina Kannada dt.) 6 each, Mani (Dakshina Kannada dt.) and Kundapura (Udupi dt.) 5 each, Naduvattam (Nilgiris dt.), Panambur, Sulya (Dakshina Kannada dt.), Karkala (Udupi dt.), Bhagamandala (Kodagu dt.) and Madikeri 4 each, Mangalore, Gulbarga, Talaguppa (Shimoga dt.) and Thodupuzha (Idukki dt.) 3 each, Valparai, Gudalur Bazaar (Nilgiris dt.), and CIAL Kochi 2 each and Annur (Coimbatore dt.), Thuraiyur (Tiruchirapalli dt.), Hosanagara, Sagar and Thyagarthy (All Shimoga dt.), Gokak (Belgaum dt.) and Biligi (Bagalkote dt.) 1 each.

FORECAST (Valid until Saturday morning): Rain or thundershowers are likely to occur at most places over coastal Karnataka, at many places over south interior Karnataka and at a few places over coastal Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, north interior Karnataka and Kerala. Isolated rain or thundershowers are likely to occur over Tamil Nadu, Pondicherry, Rayalaseema and Lakshadweep.

Heavy rainfall warning: Isolated heavy rain is likely to occur over Ghat areas of south interior Karnataka during the next 48 hours.

Outlook for subsequent two days: No significant change.

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