Chandigarh, January 14
It was a partially cloudy day today as the people continued to shiver under the cold wave conditions in North-West India with the mercury staying 2°C to 4°C below normal in the plains.
The mercury continued to be below the zero degree mark at Amritsar and Adampur, near Jalandhar, the two coldest places in the plains.
At Chandigarh, Karnal, Ludhiana, Patiala and Narnaul the night temperatures were two to four degrees below normal. In Himachal Pradesh the higher reaches were cold with Kalpa freezing at minus 5.5 degrees.
The cold wave conditions prevailing at many places in Punjab, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh are likely to continue in the next two days, according to the Weather Office here. The
weather is expected to be cloudy but dry in Punjab and Haryana, while in the higher reaches of Himachal Pradesh, snow is expected. In Punjab, Adampur continued to be the coldest place, recording the minimum temperature at minus 0.8 degrees, followed by Amritsar registering minus 0.4°C, four degrees below normal.
Ludhiana recorded 4.6 degrees, Patiala 5.4 and Pathankot 3°C.
The cold wave also swept Haryana with Narnaul in Mahendergarh district recording 1.3°C. The minimum settled at 4 degrees at Karnal, three degrees below normal, 4 degrees at Hisar and 5.1°C at Ambala.
The cold wave conditions prevailed in Chandigarh and its adjoining areas as the mercury stayed low. The city recorded the minimum at 5°C which was still two degrees below normal.
Himachal Pradesh also continued to be under the
impact of cold wave as icy cold winds from the higher reaches swept across the valleys. Sundernagar in Mandi district recorded the minimum at minus 0.5 degrees, while Bhuntar in Kullu district reported minus 0.8 degrees, two degrees below normal.
Shimla reeled under the cold wave with the night temperature hovering at 1.5 degrees, one degree below normal.
LEH (J&K): Normal life was severely affected as temperatures dipped to -15 to 30°C in the frontier region of Ladakh forcing people to remain indoors.
Ladakh, considered the cold desert of the country, was reeling under extreme cold conditions as the day temperature was hovering between -10 and 15°C, while nights are more chilly at -25 to 30°C.
The maximum temperature at eastern Ladakh - Chanthang, located at a height of 15,000 feet above the sea level - has dipped to -30°C over the past few days, official sources said.
— UNI, PTI
