Nearly no rain in north India; lightning kills two in UP

Most parts of north India remained dry today with little or no rain in several states including Rajasthan, New Delhi, Uttarakhand, Punjab and Haryana even as two persons were killed in lightning in Uttar Pradesh.
The national capital received no rainfall since yesterday and the maximum temperature settled at 36.9 degrees Celsius, near normal for this time of the year.
The IMD observatory at Safdarjung has forecast generally clody sky for tomorrow.
In Rajasthan, no significant rainfall was recorded across the state since morning though traces of precipitation were recorded in Pilani towards the evening.
Churu recorded a maximum temperature of 42.1 degrees Celsius followed by Ganganagar (41) Bikaner, and Jaipur (38.6 each).

In Punjab and Haryana, notwithstanding the onset of monsoon few days back, absence of any significant rainfall led to sultry weather conditions today.

Director of Chandigarh's MeT Department, Surinder Paul said, "Sometimes, it happens (that monsoon slows down after onset). But it will again revive in next 2-3 days...We are expecting some rains on July 9, 10 and 11".
Chandigarh, the common capital of the two states, recorded a maximum temperature of 37 degrees Celsius, up two notches against normal.
In Uttar Pradesh where monsoon rains have been normal so far, two minor girls were killed after being struck by lightning in separate incidents in Pratagarh yesterday.

Lalitpur recorded 7 cms of rainfall, Mahrauni and Rasra (6 cms each) and Mauranipur 5 cms.
After four days of rains in various parts of Bihar including Patna, it was a sunny day today with high temperature and humidity in the state capital.
The state capital recorded the maximum temperature of 33.6 degrees Celsius with humidity of 85 per cent in the morning and 77 per cent in the evening.
There was little to medium rainfall in different parts of West Bengal with Cooch Behar (34.6 mm) recording the highest precipitation.
In Gangetic West Bengal, Bankura and Burdwan recorded 11.0 mm and 14.2 mm rainfall respectively, while in other places there was little or no rain since yesterday, according to the Met department.

IMD said heavy to very heavy rain with extremely heavy falls occurred at isolated places over east Madhya Pradesh and heavy over western part of the state, Assam, Meghalaya, Andaman Nicobar Islands and Coastal Karnataka during the past 24 hours ending at 0830 hours IST of today.