Pune, Feb 19 (PTI) Rainfall forecast for next 48 hours at:

East: Would occur at isolated places in Arunachal Pradesh, sub-Himalayan West Bengal, Sikkim; could occur at isolated places in Assam and Meghalaya and mainly dry weather would prevail in Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura, Gangetic West Bengal, Odisha, Jharkhand and Bihar. North: would occur at isolated places in Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, north Rajasthan; may occur at isolated places in east Uttarakhand, Haryana, and mainly dry weather would prevail in Uttar Pradesh and south Rajasthan. Central: Mainly dry weather would prevail. Peninsula: Would occur at many places in south Tamil Nadu, Kerala; would occur at isolated places north Tamil Nadu, south interior Karnataka and mainly dry weather would prevail in Gujarat state, Konkan and Goa, Madhya Mahrashtra, Marathwada, Andhra Pradesh, coastal and north interior Karnataka. Island: Would occur at a few places in Lakshadweep; Andaman and Nicobar. Temperatures recorded in four metropolitan centres were: Kolkata max 25.4 (-4.4) d c min 15.2 (-2.9 ) d c New Delhi max 20.7 (-3.3) d c min 11.2 (+0.3 ) d c Chennai max 31.4 (+0.3) d c min 24.4 (+2.5 ) d c Mumbai max 31.8 (+2.4) d c min 20.1 ( 0.0 ) d c.