Met forecasts cold wave in Chambal, Gwalior

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With rainfall, foggy conditions and cold winds harsh weather conditions continued to disrupt normal life on Tuesday in the State and warning of cold wave conditions in Chambal and Gwalior divisions in the next 24 hours  has been issued by  Met department. Day temperatures recorded steep dip on Tuesday with city recording day temperature below 5 degree Celsius at 20.3 degree Celsius. In the city cloud cover along with foggy conditions made the conditions further harsher during the day.

Chhindwara, Seoni and Umaria recorded 1 cm of rainfall in the past 24 hours.

Few regions witnessed good amount of rainfall in the past 24 hours in the state and more regions are likely to witness rainfall in the next 24 hours. According to the forecast Jabalpur and Shahdol divisions are likely to witness light rainfall. The same divisions and Sidhi and Singrauli districts are likely to witness foggy conditions in the next 24 hours.

The visibility remained low in the early morning hours but was better as compared to the visibility on Monday. The effect of abrupt weather conditions continued to impact all the modes of journey making passengers to wait for hours and even faced cancellation of their means of travel whether it was train or flight. The early morning hours for choosing road journey was avoided by several passengers due to delay caused by low visibility created of fog. Among the major cities Indore recorded day temperature at 20.4 degree Celsius which was 6 degree Celsius below the normal temperature, Gwalior recorded day temperature at 21.3 degree Celsius which was 1 degree Celsius below the normal temperature and Jabalpur recorded day temperature at 20.7 degree Celsius which was 4 degree Celsius below the normal temperature. Shivpuri recorded the lowest night temperature at 6 degree Celsius on Saturday. In the past 24 hours the temperatures recorded significant decrease in Sagar , Ujjain, Gwalior and Chambal divisions.       

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