Summary:
A cold wave gripped North India on Wednesday. The minimum temperature over north India showed a negative tendency and departure, the lowest recorded minimum temperature at Ganganagar in west Rajasthan of 0.2°C.
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A cold wave gripped North India on Wednesday. The minimum temperature over north India showed a negative tendency and departure, the lowest recorded minimum temperature at Ganganagar in west Rajasthan of 0.2°C.
Cold and dry northerly/northwesterly winds from the western Himalayas have been barrelling through the plains, bringing down the minimum temperature in north India, Kuldeep Srivastava, the regional forecasting centre head of the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said.
As per the data shared by IMD, the minimum temperature in Delhi (Lodhi Road) was of 3°C, 1.4°C in Haryana (Narnaul), 3.5°C in Punjab (Amritsar), 0.2°C in Rajasthan (Ganganagar), 3.8°C in UP (Bareilly), 3.8°C in MP (Umaria) & 1.6°C in Bihar (Patna).
The Safdarjung Observatory, which provides representative data for the city, recorded a minimum of 3.2 degrees Celsius, four notches below the normal.
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