Minimum Temperature To Plunge From January 2 S.K.
Brace up for some more cold in the coming days. The Met Department has predicted that the minimum temperature will dip from January 2 onwards. Rain and Foggy conditions prevailed on the last day of the year on Tuesdayand similar conditions will prevail on the New Year day bringing down a dip in the maximum temperature and thus increasing the chill factor.
Director Met Office JP Gupta while talking to "The Pioneer" said that the cloudy and the foggy conditions which were prevailing were due to a cyclonic disturbance overhead Madhya Pradesh, "This cyclonic disturbance overhead Madhya Pradesh has brought in the cloudy and slight rainfall. This will prevail on January 1 after which the minimum temperature will take a plunge".
In the city the skies remained cloudy throughout the day with the sun not making its appearance. The city recorded a maximum temperature of degree 15.2 degree celcius and a minimum temperature of 10.6 degree celcius. Slight rains in the afternoon increased the chill and people were seen gathered around small bonfires sipping tea.
In the state Gorakhpur recorded a minimum temperature of 6.4 degree cecius , Varanasi recorded a minimum of 10.7 degree celcius, Sulatnpur 11.2 degree celcius, Allahabad recorded a minimum of 12 degree celcius, Kanpur recorded a minimum of 10.4 degree celcius, Etawah recorded a minimm of 5.6 degree celcius, Hardoi 11 degree celcius,
Sultanpur recorded a minimum of 11 degree celcius, Moradabad recorded a minimum of 10.2 degree celcius, Jhansi 12.7 degree celcius, Hardoi 11.2 degree celcius, Aligarh 9 degree celcius, Muzzafarnagar 7.8 degree celcius and Meerut 10.1 degree celcius.