Bhopal

Intense cold conditions return

Staff Reporter

After little relief from extreme cold weather conditions intense conditions were once again witnessed in the State capital on Monday.

The night temperatures improved little and were recorded around 5 degree Celsius on Sunday.

In the state capital intense cold conditions prevailed and a dip of 3 degree Celsius was recorded in the day temperature on Monday.

The Western Disturbance in Jammu and Kashmir region has made conditions extreme cold with cold winds and foggy morning which was witnessed in the morning on Monday.

The state capital recorded day temperature at 22.1 degree Celsius which was 2.5 degree Celsius below normal while the night temperature was recorded at 9.8 degree Celsius which was 1 degree Celsius below normal.

Datia and Nowgong were the coldest places of the state which recorded night temperature at 5 degree Celsius.

Significant dip in temperatures was recorded in Rewa division in the past 24 hours.

Among other regions Sagar and Indore witnessed temperatures below normal temperatures. 

Under the changed weather conditions foggy weather conditions would prevail in the state and state capital.

The state would witness shallow to medium fog conditions.

Met department has issued warning of shallow to medium fog in Chattarpur, Bhopal, Indore, Ujjain, Gwalior and Datia districts in the next 24 hours.

The night temperatures have increased but day temperatures have shown a receding trend for the past two days and cold winds have further augmented the intense cold conditions.

Weather conditions are less likely to provide relief from the extreme weather conditions and would prevail for the whole week as a WD would hit Western Himalayan Region and one would affect by January 18 according to the weather inference.