With cold wave conditions continuing unabated in Punjab and Haryana, Narnaul settled at minimum temperature of 1.2 degrees Celsius, five notches below normal on Monday. The holy city of Amritsar in Punjab shivered at 1.8 degrees Celsius, down by two degrees from normal.
As the cold wave swept the region, Chandigarh recorded the season's coldest night so far at 4.8 degrees Celsius, two notches below normal. In Haryana, Hisar witnessed cold biting conditions recording a low of 2.9 degrees Celsius, three degrees below normal. Karnal and Ambala settled at respective lows of 3.4 degrees Celsius and 5.4 degrees Celsius.
Among other places in the region, ludhiana settled at minimum temperature of 4.5 degrees Celsius, down by two notches from normal level and Patiala faced cold conditions at a low of 5 degrees Celsius, down by two degrees.
The maximum temperature levels also dropped below normal across the region with Narnual recording maximum temperature at 17 degrees Celsius, six degrees below normal. The maximum temperature was recorded at 20.5 degrees Celsius in Chandigarh, 18.6 degrees in Ambala, 20.6 degrees in Karnal, 19.6 degrees Celsius in Patiala and 20.2 degrees in Amritsar.
The local Met Department has forecast partly cloudy conditions during next 24 hours and mainly sunny thereafter in Haryana and Punjab. Also, shallow to moderate fog would occur at isolated pockets during morning hours in the two states during next 48 hours, predicted the Met Department.