The temperature levels continued to plunge across the region on Monday.Chandigarh, the joint capital of the two neighbouring States Punjab and Haryana, recorded a minimum temperature of 14.6 degree Celsius on Monday.
A Met official said that the minimum temperature levels remained upto two notches below normal while maximum temperature levels were close to normal in various parts of Punjab and Haryana on Monday.
The Met official added that slight plunge in temperature levels were witnessed in many parts of the region in past 48 hours. The Met Department has forecast light rain/thundershowers at isolated places during next 48 hours and mainly sunny weather thereafter at isolated places in Punjab and Haryana.
The weather would be mainly clear in Chandigarh, said the Met forecast. Meanwhile, in Haryana, Ambala recorded minimum temperature of 15.1 degrees, Hissar settled at 15.5 degrees, Narnual 15 degree Celsius, Bhiwani 19.8 degrees and Karnal recorded a low of 13.8 degrees, one degree below normal.
The holy city-Amritsar in Punjab recorded minimum temperature of 14.2 degree Celsius, ludhiana 13.2 degrees, two notches below normal and Patiala settled at 15.4 degree Celsius.
The maximum temperature recorded was 30.7 degrees in Chandigarh, 30.1 degrees in Ambala, 32.6 degrees in Hissar, 32 degrees in Narnual, 31.4 degrees in Bhiwani, 28.6 degrees in Amritsar, 30.5 degree Celsius in ludhiana and 31.1 degrees in Patiala.
Meanwhile, hills of Himachal Pradesh experienced cold weather conditions with minimum temperature staying close to the freezing point. Kalpa, some 250 to the northeast from Shimla, in Kinnaur district was the coldest place in the state with minimum temperature at 1.8 degrees Celsius.
The minimum temperature in Shimla was 9.2 degrees, Manali was 3 degrees Celsius, Dharamsala 11.4 degrees, Nahan 11.5 degrees, Bhuntar 7 degrees, Solan 7 degree Celsius, Sunder Nagar 7.9 degrees and Kangra 7 degree celsius.