Madhya Pradesh continues to reel under cold wave conditions although with a slight relief on Friday when sunlight was seen most part of the day.
The harsh weather also impacted the transport as trains and flights were delayed by several hours creating inconvenience to the passengers. The transport problem would persist, the Met officials said. The weather would take time to become normal.
Weather conditions were witnessed at comforting levels on Friday which remained harsh for 5-6 days in the city. Day temperatures which witnessed dip were recorded near normal temperature in the past two days. Gwalior recorded the lowest night temperature at 3 degree Celsius on Friday.
Seoni, Betul, Ratlam and Guna witnessed intense cold wave conditions in the past 24 hours. Met department officials claimed that rainfall and hail storms would not occur as the moisture incursion has ceased.
Warnings of cold day, cold wave conditions, fog and frost conditions have been issued by the Met department.
A cold day and dense fog would be witnessed in Morena, Bhind, Gwalior and Datia districts, medium fog would be witnessed in Rewa division, Tikamgarh, Chhatarpur, Panna districts, frost would be witnessed in Gwalior and Chambal divisions and Ujjain, Raisen, Mandla, Umaria, Betul, Rewa and Balaghat and cold wave conditions would be witnessed in Indore division, according to the warning issued by Met department.
The city recorded day temperature at 22.7 degree Celsius and night temperature at 6.6 degree Celsius. The wind direction has turned northerly and cold conditions would remain till the direction of the wind would change.
Among the major cities Jabalpur recorded day temperature at 22.6 degree Celsius, Indore recorded day temperature at 24.2 degree Celsius and Gwalior recorded day temperature at 22.9 degree Celsius.