Rain dents Lohri celebrations

Tribune News Service

Bathinda, January 13

The city on Monday received 2 mm rainfall, playing a spoilsport in Lohri celebrations as people had planned to celebrate the festival in the open tonight. They had to make alternative arrangements for the festival celebrations.

As per the Agri-Met Department of the regional station of Punjab Agricultural University (PAU), Bathinda, 2 mm of rainfall was recorded. The maximum temperature was recorded at 13.4 degrees Celsius and the minimum temperature for the day was 12.2 degrees Celsius.

Meteorology Department officials said on a cloudy day the temperature often remained on the higher side as compared to sunny days as the evaporation process took more time on cloudy days. However, windy conditions, coupled with rain, added to chill in the air on Monday.

The officials said the city was likely to witness cloudy days in the next two days, following which the weather was expected to clear. It is worth mentioning that the Met Department had predicted rain for today and throughout the day, the weather remained cloudy and it rained off all day.