Winter warms up as rain drops mercury by 8° C

Chandigarh | Thursday | 13th December, 2018

Summary:

The maximum temperature would be around 20 degrees Celsius, while the minimum would drop to 8 degrees Celsius. CHANDIGARH: The first rain of the winter season plunged the maximum temperature by nearly 8 degrees to register at 16.3 degrees Celsius on Wednesday.The maximum temperature was 6 degrees below normal, the first time it dropped this low in December. The minimum temperature on Tuesday was recorded at 9.6 degrees, 3 degrees above normal. On Tuesday, the maximum temperature was recorded at 23.4 degrees Celsius, 1 degree above normal.Five mm of rainfall was recorded at the Sector 38 observatory and 8mm at the airport observatory.On the other hand, the minimum temperature was recorded higher at 12.1 degrees Celsius, 5 degrees above normal. On Thursday, the sky is expected to be partly cloudy and mist and shallow fog is expected to cover Tricity..