GUWAHATI, June 4 - The India Meteorology Department (IMD) today warned possibility of heavy rain over Assam and Meghalaya on June 6 and 7. It further warned likelihood of heavy to very heavy rains at isolated places over Assam and Meghalaya on June 8.
The IMD, in its bulletin issued here today on weather over Assam and its adjoining states, further said that rain or thundershower is �very likely� to occur at a few places over Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram and Tripura and at isolated places over Arunachal Pradesh, Assam and Meghalaya during the next 24 hours.
It has also warned of likelihood of heavy rain at isolated places over Arunachal Pradesh on June 7 and 8, and over Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram and Tripura on June 6, 7 and 8.
During the past 24 hours, day temperature rose over Arunachal Pradesh and changed a little over the rest of the NE region. Day temperatures were appreciably above their respective normal temperatures over Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur and Tripura and above normal over Meghalaya during the said period, it said.
In its local forecast for Guwahati and its neighbourhood, it has stated that the Guwahati sky will initially remain partly cloudy and it will become generally cloudy during the next 24 hours. Rain/thundershower is very likely to occur in the city and its adjoining areas during this period and maximum and minimum temperatures in the city are most likely to be 35 degree Celsius and 25 degree Celsius respectively on June 5, said the IMD in the report.
The city today recorded a maximum temperature of 36 degree Celsius, which was four degree Celsius above its normal for the period. Today it recorded a minimum temperature of 26 degree Celsius, which was two degree Celsius above normal in this respect for the period.
Dibrugarh today recorded a maximum temperature of 36 degree Celsius, which was above five degree Celsius of its normal in this regard for the period. Silchar also recorded a maximum temperature of 36 degree Celsius and it was five degree Celsius above its normal in this regard for the period. North Lakhimpur recorded a maximum temperature of 37 degree Celsius and it was six degree Celsius above its normal in this respect for the period.
