With winter season setting in the plains of Punjab and Haryana including the capital city of Chandigarh, the night temperatures have started to fall during the past few days.
While the maximum temperatures have been hovering in the range of 26-30 degrees Celsius, the minimum have dropped by few notches of normal level. Chandigarh recorded minimum temperature at 10.8 degree Celsius while maximum settled at 27.8 degrees on Sunday.
In Punjab, ludhiana recorded a minimum temperature of 8.2 degrees Celsius, two notches below normal while Amritsar, too, had a cold night at 8.4 degrees, down two notches. Patiala registered a low of 11.4 degree Celsius.
Narnaul in Haryana experienced a cold night at 8.2 degress, down three notches while Hisar’s low settled at 8.5 degree Celsius, down two degrees than normal. Ambala city registered a low of 11.5 degree Celsius.
The maximum temperature recorded was 25.7 degrees in Ambala, 28.7 degree Celsius in Hisar, 25 degrees in Narnaul, 26.4 degree Celsius in Amritsar, 28.5 degrees in ludhiana and 28.1 degree Celsius in Patiala.
According to the Met department, the next two days in the states would be mainly sunny but a mist/shallow fog may occur during morning time.
In the hilly State of Himachal Pradesh, capital city Shimla recorded minimum temperature at 8.5 degree Celsius while maximum was 21.5 degrees. Bhuntar recorded a low of 4.2 degrees, Solan 6.2 degree Celsius, Sundernagar 5.1 degree Celsius, Manali 2 degrees, Kalpa 3.6 degree Celsius and Bhuntar 4.2 degrees.