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

	Ma	Mi	R	TR
ANDHRA PRADESH
Anantapur	30	17	0	155
Arogyavaram	25	17	tr	475
Bapatla	30	20	0	415
Calingapatnam	25	20	0	485
Gannavaram	30	21	tr	247
Hyderabad AP	31	16	0	222
Kakinada	29	24	0	416
Kammam	28	18	0	268
Kavali	29	22	7	1014
Kurnool	31	19	0	328
Machilipatnam	29	22	tr	428
Nandyal	32	19	0	158
Narasapur	28	22	0	378
Nellore	28	23	8	983
Nizamabad	31	13	0	83
Ongole	30	23	tr	466
Ramagundam	30	15	0	157
Tirupathi AP	25	22	3	1309
Tuni	25	22	0	368
Vizag AP	29	23	0	—
Vizag	27	22	0	662
KARNATAKA
Agumbe	29	—	—	—
Bangalore AP	25	17	0	531
Bangalore	28	17	0	675
Bagalkote	29	14	0	148
Belgaum AP	29	12	0	121
Belgaum	30	13	0	108
Bellary	32	18	0	113
Chitradurga	30	18	0	265
Chikmagalur	28	14	0	386
Gadag	31	17	0	89
Gulbarga	31	14	0	111
Hassan	28	16	0	296
Hanovar	33	19	0	162
Karwar	34	19	0	158
Madikeri	26	13	0	261
Mangalore AP	33	23	0	225
Mysore	31	15	0	405
Mandya	31	16	0	409
Panambur	34	23	0	181
Shirali	36	20	0	108
KERALA
Alappuzha	31	25	0	535
Kannur	34	22	0	477
Kochi AP	31	24	0	701
Kottayam	33	22	1	720
Kozhikode	33	24	0	388
Thiruvanantha
-puram AP	31	25	0	675
Thiruvanantha
-puram City	32	24	0	702
TAMIL NADU
Adiramapattinam	31	23	0	645
Coimbatore AP	33	21	0	536
Coonoor	—	10	0	681
Cuddalore	28	23	tr	1288
Chennai AP	26	23	9	1860
Chennai	26	22	11	2105
Dharmapuri	28	20	0	468
Kanyakumari	31	25	0	421
Kodaikanal	16	7	0	838
Madurai AP	33	23	0	584
Nagapattinam	28	23	0	1273
Palayamkottai	33	23	0	409
Pamban	32	23	0	672
Parangipettai	28	24	0	1370
Pondicherry	28	23	tr	1148
Salem	32	20	0	668
Thanjavur	29	23	0	907
Tiruchi AP	31	23	0	928
Tiruchi	30	23	0	986
Tirupattur	28	21	0	470
Tondi	31	25	0	729
Tuticorin	32	25	0	333
Vedaranyam	28	21	0	934
Vellore	27	23	1	702
LAKSHADWEEP
Amini Divi	31	23	0	319
Minicoy	32	26	0	441
OTHER STATIONS
Kolkata (Alipore)	28	17	0	461
Mumbai	29	17	0	20
New Delhi	22	4	0	1

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

Rain likely in coastal T.N.

CHENNAI: Monday's deep depression moved northeastwards and now lies centered at 8.30 a.m. on Tuesday at about 400 kilometres East of Cuddalore. The system is likely to move in a northeasterly direction. Isolated rainfall occurred over Tamil Nadu, coastal Andhra Pradesh and Rayalaseema. Mainly dry weather prevailed over Kerala and dry weather prevailed over Telangana, Karnataka and Lakshadweep. The other chief amounts of rainfall recorded in centimetres are: Redhills (Tiruvallur dt) 6, Cholavaram (Tiruvallur dt) 2 and Chennai, Chennai Airport, Ponneri (Tiruvallur dt) and Nellore 1 each.

The minimum temperature fell at one or two places over coastal Karnataka, north coastal Andhra Pradesh, rose at a few places over Telangana, at one or two places over south interior Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Kerala and changed little elsewhere over the region. They were below normal at a few places over north interior Karnataka, at one or two places over coastal Karnataka. They were appreciably to markedly above normal at a few places over coastal Andhra Pradesh, at one or two places over Tamil Nadu, Telangana, above normal at a few places over rest Tamil Nadu, Kerala at one or two places over rest coastal Andhra Pradesh, rest interior Karntaka, Rayalaseema and were generally normal over the rest of the region. Adilabad recorded the lowest minimum temperature of 10{+o} Celsius in the plains of the region.

Forecast (Valid until Thursday morning): Rain or thundershowers are likely to occur at a few places over coastal Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry. Isolated rain or thundershowers are likely to occur over interior Tamil Nadu and coastal Andhra Pradesh.

Mainly dry weather will prevail over Telangana, Rayalaseema, Karnataka, Kerala and Lakshadweep.

Light to moderate rain is likely to occur at a few places over Channai, Kanchipuram, Tiruvallur, Cuddalore, Villupuram, Thanjavur, Tiruvarur, Nagapattinam, Pudukottai, Ramanathapuram, Tirunelveli, Tuticorin and Kanyakumari districts of Tamil Nadu and in Pondicherry. Isolated light to moderate rain is also likely to occur over remaining districts of Tamil Nadu.

Outlook for subsequent two days: No significant change.

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