The 12th South Asian Games will kick start on February 06, 2016 with good weather conditions in Guwahati and Shillong. The entire Assam valley with parts of Meghalaya will experience a pleasant weather during the games.
The average temperature will hover in the mid 20 degree Celsius range with the minimum temperature in the double digits for the region. There will be no major weather activity for the first two days of the event.
Around 8th and 9th of February, light & isolated rainfall can be expected. This rainfall will happen due to the Western Disturbance happening over North India right now.
The rainfall activity can intensify as the games carry on. On 10th and 11th a wide spread fairly moderate rainfall is expected.
The upper part of Assam and Arunachal Pradesh will observe the first sight of rainfall around February 8 and slowly the entire Northeast Region will witness a fairly moderate rainfall.
The day temperature around this time will fall because of the overcast days and rains. A moderate rise in temperature will happen in the night. The overall temperature will see a drop as rainfall in winter cools the entire region.
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