By IANS
New Delhi : The mercury has certainly started to crawl upwards and those in Delhi and the national capital region have begun to don lighter clothing. But the weather man forecasts there might be a bit of sting still left in the winter.
The maximum temperature in the national capital was 27.4 degrees Celsius while the Met Office has said that maximum for Saturday could be around 28 degrees Celsius.
After being in single digit for months, the minimum temperature in Delhi Friday climbed to 10 degrees Celsius. But the Met Office said that the northern region could well see a fall in the minimum temperatures by two to three degrees Celsius beginning next week.
The lowest minimum temperature in the northern plains was 6.8 degrees Celsius, recorded at Amritsar in Punjab.
The Met Office has also forecast mild rain or thundershowers in some parts of West Bengal, Sikkim, coastal Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
The weather in the rest of the country will remain dry.
The following are the maximum and minimum temperatures and rainfall in major cities for the 24 hours till Friday morning, with figures in brackets denoting deviations from the average.
City Maximum Temperature Minimum Temperature Rainfall
(C) (C) (mm)
Delhi 27.6 (+3) 10.4 (-1) Nil
Mumbai 30.6 (-1) 15.9 (-1) Nil
Chennai 31.5 (+1) 22.1 (+1) Nil
Kolkata 26.5 (-3) 15.6 (-1) Nil
Ahmedabad 34.1 (+2) 13.7 (-1) Nil
Bangalore 32.1 (+2) 18.9 (+2) Nil
Bhopal 31.0 (+2) 15.4 (+2) Nil
Bhubaneswar 29.6 (-2) 16.3 (-5) Nil
Chandigarh 25.6 (+1) 12.8 (+4) Nil
Dehradun 26.8 (0) 10.0 (-2) Nil
Panaji 34.0 (+3) 19.5 (-2) Nil
Guwahati 26.8 (0) 10.0 (-2) Nil
Hyderabad 33.1 (+1) 20.2 (+3) Nil
Jaipur 29.9 (+3) 15.4 (+3) Nil
Lucknow 26.3 (-1) 10.8 (0) Nil
Nagpur 32.6 (0) 13.5 (-3) Nil
Patna 24.4 (-4) 10.4 (-3) Nil
Pune 34.4 (+1) 14.8 (+3) Nil
Srinagar 10.6 (+2) 3.1 (+3) Nil
Thiruvananthapuram 32.7 (+1) 23.3 (0) Nil