Biting cold conditions continued to grip Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Union Territory of Chandigarh with temperature levels dropping upto four degrees below normal at several places even as mist and fog in the morning disrupted normal life in the region.
Dense fog continued to disrupt normal life in parts of Punjab and Haryana on Wednesday. The holy city-Amritsar in Punjab was the coldest place in the plains settling at low temperature of 2.2 degrees Celsius, two notches below normal.
Haryana’s Narnaul district shivered at minimum temperature of 2.5 degrees Celsius, three degrees down the normal level. Chandigarh recorded minimum temperature at 5.6 degrees Celsius. In Punjab, Patiala settled at minimum temperature of 6.2 degrees Celsius while ludhiana saw a minimum of 4.6 degrees Celsius, two degrees below normal.
Ambala in Haryana recorded minimum temperature at 6.1 degrees Celsius while Hisar settled at 4.4 degrees Celsius, three degrees below the normal. Karnal recorded minimum temperature four notches below normal settling at 4 degrees Celsius.
According to the Met Department, both maximum and minimum temperature levels were recorded below normal in several parts of the region leaving the populace shivering throughout the day.
Haryana’s Karnal district recorded maximum temperature at 18 degrees Celsius, three degrees below normal. Chandigarh recorded maximum temperature at 19.1 degrees Celsius, down by two degrees.
Among other places, Ambala settled at maximum temperature of 18 degrees Celsius, three degrees below normal, Amritsar saw 17.4 degrees Celsius, three degrees below normal, ludhiana recorded 19.2 degrees Celsius and Patiala saw a maximum of 19 degrees Celsius.
According to the Met Department forecast, days will be mainly sunny in Haryana and Punjab in next 24 hours. Shallow to moderate fog would occur during morning and night in parts of both the States, predicted the Met Department.
Meanwhile, the hilly State of Himachal Pradesh also continued to reel under severe cold conditions with Kalpa settling at a low of minus 4.4 degrees Celsius.
The minimum temperature in Shimla, the capital city of Himachal Pradesh settled at minus 0.2 degrees Celsius. Among other places, Sundernagar recorded minimum temperature at 0.6 degrees Celsius, Solan 0.4 degrees Celsius, Manali minus 2.6, Una minus 2 degrees Celsius, Nahan 6.2 degrees and Dharamshala 5.4 degrees Celsius.