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Sunny Himachal as Shimla registers season's lowest temperature

It was sunny on Monday but most parts of Himachal Pradesh still experienced intense cold weather and Shimla shivered at 1.8 degrees Celsius, the season's lowest.

Coldest December night in Srinagar in 11 years

At minus 6.8 degrees Celsius Srinagar recorded the coldest December night on Monday after over a decade, as a severe cold wave swept through the Kashmir Valley and the Ladakh region, Met said.

Cold wave continues in Raj but night temperatures rise

Cold weather conditions continue to prevail in Rajasthan even as most parts of the state witnessed slight increase in the night temperatures, MeT officials said Sunday. On Saturday night, Sikar's Fatehpur Shekhawati recorded 1.4 degrees Celsius. The town had recorded sub-zero temperature for the last nine days. According to the MeT department, the only hill station of the desert state, Mount Abu, recorded 1.6 degrees Celsius on Saturday night. The lowest night temperature was recorded in Alwar at 3.4 degrees Celsius. It was followed by Churu (4.7), Eranpura road (5.2), Sriganganagar (5.3), Chittorgarh and Udaipur (both 5.9), Sawai Madhopur (6.2), Pilani (6.6), Kota (6.9), Jodhpur (8), Jaisalmer (8.7), Ajmer (8.8), Sikar and Phalodi (both 9), Bikaner (9.4), Jaipur (10.1) and Barmer (10.5), the weatherman said. On Sunday, the minimum day temperature of 4.7 degree Celsius was recorded in Churu followed by 5.3 degrees Celsius in Sriganganagar, and 5.8 degrees Celsius in Dabok. The maximum

Odisha: 10 places record temperature below 10 degrees Celsius

Biting cold tightened its grip over Odisha Sunday with the temperature sliding below 10 degrees Celsius in at least 10 places. Keonjhar became the coldest place in the state recording a minimum temperature of 7.1 degrees Celsius, while the mercury dipped to 7.5 degrees Celsius at the tourist destination of Daringbadi in Kandhamal district, the Meteorological Centre here said. Coastal areas of the state also recorded a sharp fall in the night temperature with state capital Bhubaneswar and neighbouring Cuttack recording 10.2 and 11.1 degrees Celsius respectively. The night temperature in most parts of the state is likely to remain 3 to 4 degrees Celsius below normal during the next three days in the state, the MeT centre said. With most parts of the state shivering under intense cold, Odisha government on Saturday had asked district collectors to take steps to provide night accommodation to the homeless inside schools and public buildings. The civic body authorities have ..

Drop in mercury turns Delhi air 'severe'; may improve next week

Sharp drop in the minimum temperature caused the air quality in Delhi-NCR to turned 'severe' on Sunday and as per the Met it will remain so till Monday morning as such physical activities outdoors should not be encouraged.

Northern states shiver as mercury plummets

Cold wave sweeping Punjab and Haryana for the past ten days continued unabated, with Adampur shivering at 1.5 degrees Celsius on Sunday. Adampur in Punjab was the coldest place in the two states recording a bone chilling minimum temperature. Severe cold swept Bathinda too, which recorded a minimum temperature of 2 degrees Celsius while Halwara's minimum settled at 2.2 deg C, a Meteorological Department official said here. Amritsar (4.9 deg C),Ludhiana (3.7 deg C), Patiala (4.1 deg C), Pathankot (5.6 deg C), Faridkot (5 deg C) and Gurdaspur (4.2 deg C) tooexperienced a cold night. In Haryana, Narnaul was the coldest place recording a low of 2.5 degrees Celsius, while Hisar and Karnal, too, were gripped by intense cold with both places recording respective minimums of 3.8 deg C and 4 deg C. Rohtak (6.2 deg C), Bhiwani (6.5 deg C) and Ambala (5.4 deg C) also recorded below normal minimum temperatures. Chandigarh, the common capital of the two states, recorded a low of 5.9 deg C. The ...

Cold wave intensifies, temperature dips to zero degrees in Karnal

Temperature in Karnal district dropped to zero degrees on Sunday as the cold wave intensified across the northern part of India.While Gurugram recorded 1.4 degrees Celsius, temperatures in Hisar and Rohtak were docking at 2.7 degrees and 3.8 degrees Celsius, respectively.Chilly winters accompanied by the menace of air pollution is making a deadly combination for people residing in the national capital and nearby areas.In Delhi, minimum temperatures dropped marginally in many areas on Sunday morning. The lowest temperature was recorded near Lodhi Road (3.7 degrees Celsius), followed by Safdarjung (4.0 degrees Celsius), Aya Nagar (4.8 degrees Celsius) and Palam (5.6 degrees Celsius). Furthermore, the overall air quality index of Delhi was 419, which falls in the 'hazardous' category.According to the India Meteorological Department (IMD), western disturbance lies over Afghanistan and adjoining north Pakistan and is likely to affect higher reaches of the western Himalayan region during ...

At 3.7 degrees C, Delhi records coldest December day in 12 years

The national capital on Sunday recorded its coldest December temperature in the past 12 years with mercury dipping to 3.7 degrees Celsius, as a moderate cover of fog surrounded the city dropping visibility. The minimum temperature for the month lower than Sunday's was recorded on December 29, 2007 at 3.9 degrees Celsius, according to data from the Met department. The Sunday's minimum temperature was four notches below the season's average, a Met department official said. The all-time lowest temperature in the national capital for the month of December was 1.1 degrees Celsius recorded on December 26, 1945, the data showed. The morning also witnessed a moderate cover of fog around the city with visibility dropping to 300 metres at Palam and 400 metres at Safdarjung, said the MeT department official. The maximum temperature for the day is expected to hover around 22 degrees Celsius, he said. As the day progresses, it is likely to become partly cloudy. Haze will also appear in the ...

Cold wave grips J&K, Drass at minus 17.3

Icy cold winds blowing from the snow-clad mountains brought down the temperatures to minus 17.3 in Drass town on Sunday as the cold wave intensified in the Kashmir Valley.

Cold wave in parts of western UP

Cold-wave conditions prevailed at isolated places over western Uttar Pradesh, with Muzaffarnagar recording 0.4 degrees Celsius. The met office said shallow-to-moderate fog occurred at isolated places over the state and there was dense fog in some parts of western UP. Night temperatures remained below normal in Varanasi, Faizabad, Allahabad, Lucknow, Bareilly, Meerut, Gorakhpur and Agra divisions. Muzaffarnagar was the coldest in the state with 0.4 degrees Celsius. Day temperatures fell in Moradabad division and there wad no large change in the remaining divisions over the state. The weather department has forecast shallow-to-moderate fog at isolated places, with cold-wave condition in some places over the western region.

Cold wave conditions in Kashmir, Leh records coldest night of season at -15.8 deg C

Cold wave conditions tightened grip in Kashmir as the mercury went down at most places last night, with Leh, in the Ladakh region, experiencing the coldest night of the winter so far. Leh recorded a low of minus 15.8 degrees Celsius last night over three degrees down from minus 12.7 degrees Celsius the previous night, MET officials said, adding it was the coldest night of the season in the frontier town. The officials said the night temperature at most places in the Kashmir division went down last night as the cold conditions tightened grip in the valley and Ladakh region on the second day of 'Chillai-Kalan' the 40-day harshest period of winter when the chances of snowfall are most frequent and maximum and the temperature drops considerably. Srinagar the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir recorded a low of minus 5.4 degrees Celsius last night a notch down from the previous night, the officials said. They said the minimum temperature in the city was over three degrees below the ..

It's sunny in Shimla, Manali

The picturesque tourist resorts of Shimla and Manali experienced another sunny day on Saturday but Himachal Pradesh's higher reaches stayed in the grip of extreme cold, the meteorological office said. It predicted no rain or snow across the state till next week.

Cold wave sweeps Pb, Hry; Karnal coldest at zero deg C

The mercury dipped to zero degrees Celsius in Karnal on Saturday as the cold wave sweeping most parts of Haryana and Punjab for over a week continued unabated. The minimum temperatures in the two states were several notches below the normal. Karnal in Haryana recorded a low of zero degrees Celsius, seven degrees below the normal and the lowest in the two states, a Meteorological Department official said. Among other places in Haryana, Hisar, Ambala and Narnaul shivered at 2.7, 4.6 and 2 degrees Celsius respectively, up to five degrees below the normal. Rohtak, Bhiwani and Sirsa recorded minimum temperatures of 3.8, 5.5 and 3.8 degrees Celsius respectively. In Punjab, Adampur continued to be the coldest place in the state for the second consecutive day at 0.2 degrees Celsius. Amritsar, Ludhiana, Patiala, Pathankot, Halwara and Bathinda also braved icy temperatures at 2.2, 1.4, 4.7, 3.1, 2.2 and 2.4 degrees Celsius respectively. Chandigarh, the joint capital of Haryana and Punjab, ...

Keylong coldest place in HP at minus 8.8 deg C

Tribal district Lahaul and Spiti's administrative centre Keylong continued to be the coldest place in Himachal Pradesh with a minimum temperature of minus 8.8 degrees Celsius, the Meteorological (MeT) Department said on Saturday. Cold wave conditions also gripped other parts of the state, causing the mercury to dip below the freezing point in Manali, Solan, Kalpa, Seobagh, Bhuntar and Sundernagar as well, the Met Centre Director Manmohan Singh said. The lowest temperature in the state was recorded in Keylong at minus 8.8 degrees Celsius between 5.30 pm on Friday and 8.30 am on Saturday, he said. Both Manali and Seobagh recorded a minimum temperature of minus 1.6 degrees Celsius during the period. The minimum temperature in Kalpa was minus 3 degrees Celsius, minus 1.1 degrees Celsius in Bhuntar, minus 0.8 degrees Celsius in Sundernagar and minus 0.5 degrees Celsius in Solan. However, the minimum temperature in Shimla was 6.7 degrees Celsius during the period, Singh said. Kufri recorded

Delhi wakes up to mercury at 4 degrees C; air quality remains 'severe'

The cold wave that started midweek here was expected to end on Saturday

Delhi feels the chill as temperature dips to 4 deg C again

Delhiites shivered on Saturday as the mercury once again dipped to 4 degrees Celsius. This is the second time in three days that the mercury has plunged to 4 degrees Celsius -- the lowest temperature in the last four years. The fall in temperature is due to cold wave conditions prevailing over northwest India, the Meteorological Department said. The minimum temperature in Delhi was recorded at 4 degrees, four notches below the season's average, it said. The mercury had touched the 4-degree Celsius mark on Thursday as well. The humidity level at 8.30 AM on Saturday was recorded at 97 per cent. The weather office has forecast clear skies for the day ahead. "The maximum temperature is likely to hover at 21 degrees Celsius," it said. On Friday, the maximum and minimum temperatures were recorded at 20.6 and 4.7 degrees Celsius respectively.

Severe cold wave in Kashmir, Ladakh

A severe cold wave lashed Kashmir Valley and the Ladakh region on Saturday as Leh recorded minus 15.8 degrees Celius and the Met forecast no change in conditions for at least the next five days till Thursday.

Homeless move to night shelters as mercury dips in Delhi

The cold weather and the incessant dropping temperature in the national capital have prompted the homeless people to move to the night shelters.Popularly known as Rain Baseras, the government-supported night shelter homes have become haven for the homeless.According to Skymet, a private weather forecaster, "Delhi continues to battle chilly nights, with minimum temperatures refusing to rise above 5 Degrees Celsius for the last many days. Friday morning was no different as minimum temperature settled at 4.7 Degrees Celsius, which was four degrees below the normal range."The report further added that the increase in the winter chill can be attributed to the fact that there has been no significant change in the weather pattern across northwestern plains of the country.A cold wave warning had been issued by the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD). The agency had also stated that the night temperature in Delhi and its surrounding regions could further drop to around 4 Degrees Celsius in .

Cold wave sweeps north India; Kashmir's harshest winter period begins

Cold wave conditions continued in north Indian states Friday, with minimum temperatures in Delhi remaining below 5 degree Celsius and starting of Kashmir's 40-day harshest winter period, known in the local parlance as 'Chillai-Kalan'. The minimum temperature in Delhi was recorded at 4.7 degree Celsius, a slight increase from the previous day. The maximum temperature plunged to settle at 20.6 degrees Celsius, a notch below the season's average, the weather office said. Officials have forecast clear skies in Delhi for Saturday along with moderate fog in the morning and haze and smoke thereafter. Cold wave conditions are likely at isolated places with temperatures hovering between 21 and 4 degree Celsius. In Kashmir, 'Chillai-Kalan' began on a dry note even as cold wave conditions continue to prevail in the Valley and Ladakh region as the minimum temperature settled several notches below the freezing point. 'Chillai-Kalan' is a period during which snowfalls are frequent and maximum ...

Cold wave conditions prevail in Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan

Cold wave conditions prevailed across Punjab, Haryana and Rajasthan with minimum temperatures dipping in the past 24 hours, Met department officials said on Friday.