Shivering with severe cold, the state recorded temperatures nearing freezing in Pachmarhi at 1.8 degree celsius on Tuesday, and several regions experienced intense cold day conditions on Wednesday.
The Met has issued warning of cold wave and cold day conditions at Rajgarh, Bhopal, Vidisha, Raisen, Sehore, Indore, Shajapur, Tikamgarh, Niwari districts while sold wave at Isolated Places In Narmadapuram, Khandwa, Barwani, Dhar, Agar, Guna, Shahdol, Jabalpur, Seoni, Sagar Districts.
Cold day conditions would be witnessed in Betul, Harda, Ratlam, Ujjain, Dewas, Mandsaur, Neemuch, Sidhi, Rewa, Satna, Umaria, Panna, Chhatarpur districts according to the Met warning.
Providing a much needed relief, school timings were revised to 9 am in the state capital, DEO issued orders of schools opening at 9 am from Thursday.
State capital witnessed the coldest night of the season at 6.9 degree celsius on Tuesday, at the same time, it is the fifth lowest temperature in the last 10 years.
The Met issued a cold day alert for Wednesday as well while the last two days were cold days. Cold winds have been blowing since morning.
The city is experiencing severe cold conditions for the last two days. Due to this, the temperature has dropped both day and night. Monday and Tuesday were cold days. The third day, Wednesday, also has similar weather.
Due to severe cold, the timing of schools in Bhopal has been increased by 1 hour. Now no school will start before 9 am. DEO NK Ahirwar issued these instructions for all government-private schools on Wednesday. This instruction will also be for all CBSE, ICSE and other board affiliated schools. After the order of Collector Kaushlendra Vikram Singh, all schools will start at a new time from Thursday.
In the last 5 days, the night mercury dropped to half. The temperature on the night of December 6 was 14 degrees, which reached 6.9 degrees last night. Only once in December, the temperature has reached 15.8 degrees Celsius.
There is a trend of severe cold in the second fortnight of December in Bhopal, but this time severe cold has started in the first fortnight itself.
According to the Meteorological Department, the night temperature remained below 9 degrees in the last 10 years. At the same time, 58 years ago, on December 11, 1966, the mercury had reached 3.1 degrees, which is an overall record. In the year 2021, the temperature was 3.4 degrees.
While the nights were cold in the last 10 years, the temperature remained high during the day. In the year 2020, the temperature reached 32.6 degrees on December 7. At the same time, the day temperature remained more than 30 degrees in five out of 10 years. This time the effect of cold is also during the day.
During the last 24 hours the dry weather was witnessed in all the divisions of the state. Impact of Cold wave prevailed in Bhopal, Rajgarh, Dhar, Khandwa, Girwar (Shajapur), Shahdol, Jabalpur, Seoni, Sagar, Tikamgarh, Guna, Raisen, Sehore, Kalyanpur (Shahdol), Talun (Barwani), Prithvipur (Niwari).
Impact of Severe cold wave prevailed in Pachmarhi (Narmadapuram). It was a cold day in Bhopal, Dhar, Ratlam, Girvar(Shajapur), Ujjain, Sidhi, Tikamgarh, Betul, Raisen, Talun (Barwani), Prithvipur (Niwari), Marukheda (Neemuch).
It was a severe cold day in Rajgarh, Indore. Day temperatures fell appreciably in districts of Rewa, Shahdol, Sagar divisions and no significant changes in the districts of remaining divisions. They fell markedly below normal in districts of Bhopal, Ujjain divisions; fell appreciably below normal in districts of Indore, Narmadapuram, Gwalior, Rewa, Shahdol, Sagar divisions; fell below normal in districts of Jabalpur division.
