The citizens in the State Capital shivered as the night temperature in Bhopal reached the season's lowest at 10 degree Celsius on Saturday night. Day temperatures on Sunday were witnessed around 24 deg C. Cold wave like conditions prevailed throughout the day in the city. The people either remained indoors or had to put on woollens outdoors.
Warning of fog in the next 24 hours in Bhind, Morena, Gwalior, Datia, Tikamgarh, Panna, Satna and Rewa has been issued by the Met department.
Temperatures which were witnessed above normal were recorded below normal in the season and the weather conditions would follow the same pattern, said the Met department.
Among the major cities Gwalior recorded night temperature at 7.2 deg C which was the lowest night temperature, Indore recorded 24.5 deg C in the day while the night temperature was recorded at 8.4 deg C, and Jabalpur recorded day temperature at 25.1 deg C while the night temperature was recorded at 11.4 deg C.
At present the wind is north-westerly and in the next two days when the pattern of the wind would change to northerly the gradual decrease in temperatures would change to steep changes. The current weather conditions would remain same and cold wave conditions are likely to be witnessed in the next 2-3 days.
Thundery activities and light showers were witnessed in the past 24 hours in Balaghat, Dindhori, Anuppur, Shahdol and Singroli. Decreasing trend of temperatures would continue but gradual change would be witnessed. Raisen, Gwalior, Rewa and Shajapur recorded the lowest temperature of the State at around 7 deg C.
For the past two days the weather pattern seems to have become normal as the cold conditions have prevailed which were witnessed in the morning and night only.