With cold conditions prevailing across the region, the mercury continued to settle below normal levels on Wednesday in various parts of Punjab and Haryana.
Narnaul in Haryana was the coldest in the region recording a minimum temperature at 6 degree Celsius, down by six notches from normal. Punjab’s Amritsar district saw a low temperature at 6 degree Celsius, two degrees below normal.Chandigarh, the joint capital of the two neighbouring states Punjab and Haryana, recorded a minimum temperature at 9 degree Celsius, one degree below normal.
Among other places, Ambala recorded minimum temperature at 9.5 degrees, Bhiwani 9.2 degree Celsius, Hissar 7.9 degrees and Karnal experienced cold conditions recording a minimum temperature at 7.5 degrees. ludhiana and Patiala settled at respective minimum temperatures of 6.7 degree Celsius and 9 degree Celsius.The hills of Himachal Pradesh also experienced cold weather conditions with minimum temperature staying close to the freezing point in Manali, which was the coldest place in the state with minimum temperature settling at 1.4 degrees Celsius.
The minimum temperature in Shimla was 9.8 degrees, Manali was 1.4 degrees Celsius, Dharamsala 9 degrees, Nahan 7.7 degrees, Bhuntar 2.8 degrees, Solan 4 degree Celsius, Una 4 degrees and Sunder Nagar 2.6 degrees.A Met official said that the minimum temperature levels remained upto six notches below normal while maximum temperature levels were recorded close to normal in parts of Punjab and Haryana on Wednesday.
According to the local Met Department, days would be mainly sunny and mist/haze may occur during morning in Haryana and Punjab in next 24 hours.Meanwhile, the maximum temperature recorded was 27.4 degrees in Chandigarh, 26 degrees in Ambala, 28.9 degrees in Hissar, 27.2 degrees in Karnal, 26.5 degrees in Amritsar, 26.6 degree Celsius in ludhiana and 27.4 degrees in Patiala.