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Insat picture at 11.30 hrs. Observations recorded at 8-30 a.m. on September 20.

	Ma	Mi	R	TR
ANDHRA PRADESH
Anantapur	29	22	33	413
Arogyavaram	28	21	0	482
Bapatla	27	22	89	473
Calingapatnam	27	25	5	827
Gannavaram	24	23	161	739
Hyderabad AP	25	21	25	735
Kakinada	23	—	—	—
Kammam	25	21	241	857
Kavali	36	23	8	169
Kurnool	29	21	29	622
Mahbubnagar	26	21	27	541
Machilipatnam	25	23	142	576
Nandyal	—	22	46	328
Narasapur	25	23	183	767
Nellore	31	25	0	98
Nizamabad	29	22	25	917
Ongole	30	—	—	—
Ramagundam	26	24	24	927
Tirupathi AP	32	28	0	308
Tuni	24	23	173	840
Vizag AP	25	23	161	661
Vizag	24	23	195	743
KARNATAKA
Bangalore AP	28	19	1	631
Bangalore	28	19	1	652
Bagalkote	27	22	0	296
Belgaum AP	29	20	tr	1086
Bellary	29	—	—	—
Chitradurga	25	18	1	586
Chikmagalur	25	19	1	595
Gadag	26	21	1	489
Gulbarga	30	19	8	550
Hassan	28	18	2	722
Hanovar	29	23	53	3113
Karwar	27	23	53	2704
Madikeri	22	16	22	3047
Mangalore AP	30	22	29	2881
Mysore	29	20	0	365
Mandya	30	21	0	490
Panambur	31	23	20	2705
Raichur	29	—	—	—
Shirali	30	22	37	3107
KERALA
Alappuzha	31	26	0	1612
Kannur	31	24	6	2059
Kochi AP	30	26	0	2057
Kottayam	31	23	1	1895
Kozhikode	31	23	5	1780
Punalur	33	22	0	—
Thiruvanantha
-puram AP	31	25	tr	699
Thiruvanantha
-puram City	32	25	6	745
TAMIL NADU
Adiramapattinam	34	24	0	263
Coimbatore AP	32	24	0	69
Coonoor	22	16	0	399
Cuddalore	34	26	0	193
Chennai AP	34	27	0	278
Chennai	35	27	0	294
Dharmapuri	30	23	0	368
Kanyakumari	31	25	0	201
Kodaikanal	17	12	0	500
Madurai AP	37	26	0	237
Nagapattinam	35	25	0	208
Palayamkottai	36	25	0	56
Pamban	33	25	0	9
Parangipettai	35	27	0	125
Pondicherry	35	26	0	200
Salem	32	23	0	416
Thanjavur	34	25	0	184
Tiruchi AP	35	26	0	160
Tiruchi	35	27	0	154
Tirupattur	32	22	0	520
Tiruttani	33	27	0	—
Tondi	37	25	0	81
Tuticorin	38	26	0	3
Ooty	17	11	tr	561
Valparai	23	19	12	3756
Vedaranyam	34	23	0	—
Vellore	33	25	0	250
LAKSHADWEEP
Amini Divi	29	25	tr	949
Minicoy	32	27	0	779
OTHER STATIONS
Kolkata (Alipore)	34	27	0	965
Mumbai	39	23	15	2168
New Delhi	34	25	0	587

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 in Tamil Nadu

CHENNAI: Monday's cyclonic storm over North Coastal Andhra Pradesh moved slightly west-north-westwards and weakend into a deep depression and lay centred at 0830 hours IST of Tuesday, the 20th September, over Southern parts of Chhathisgarh, close to Jagadalpur.

Under its influence Southwest Monsoon has been vigorous over Coastal Andhra Pradesh and Telangana and active over Rayalaseema and Coastal Karnataka.

Rainfall occurred at most places over Coastal Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Coastal Karnataka, at many places over Rayalaseema and at a few places over Interior Karnataka and Kerala. Isolated rainfall occurred over Tamil Nadu and mainly dry weather prevailed over Lakshadweep.

Kunavaram and Koida (both Khammam dt.) recorded exceptionally very heavy rainfall of 49 and 48 centimetres respectively.

The following stations recorded very heavy to heavy rainfall in Centimetres:

Kakinada 28, Khammam 24, Dowleswaram (East Godavari dt.) 21, Rajamundry (East Godavari dt.) 20, Madhira (Khammam dt.) and Visakhapatnam 19 each, Narasapur 18, Nandhigama, Eluru (West Godavari dt.) and Tuni 17 each, Satenapalli (Guntur dt.), Visakhapatnam Airport and Gannavaram 16 each.

Forecast (valid until Thursday morning): Rain or thundershowers are likely to occur at most places over Andhra Pradesh at many places over Karnataka and at a few places over Kerala and Lakshadweep. Isolated rain or thundershowers are likely to occur over Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry.

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