By IANS
New Delhi : The cold wave across northern India continued unabated Friday. The national capital saw a slight rise in the minimum temperature to three degrees Celsius.
“Early in the morning, the cold was as bad as on any other day. But I didn’t feel the pinch when I was going to work in an auto-rickshaw. It was nothing like what it was two days back!” said Arpita Sinha, who works in a bank.
“The minimum temperature recorded is four degrees below normal. Last year on this day the minimum temperature was 6 degrees Celsius,” said an official of the India Meteorological Department (IMD).
The capital recorded the season’s lowest temperature of 1.9 degrees Celsius Jan 2.
The lowest minimum temperature of 0.3 degrees Celsius in the northern plains was recorded at Churu in Rajasthan.
IMD has forecast that isolated precipitation is likely over northern plains adjoining the western Himalayan region from Saturday.
Isolated rain or snow is likely over Jammu and Kashmir during the next 48 hours.It may increase later.
Cold wave conditions are likely over northeast Rajasthan during the next 24 hours and abate thereafter.
Isolated rain or thundershowers are likely over Andaman and Nicobar Islands, south coastal Andhra Pradesh, south interior Karnataka and Kerala.
The following are the maximum and minimum temperatures and rainfall in major cities for 24 hours till Friday morning, with figures in brackets denoting deviations from the average.
Delhi
Maximum Temperature (C) 20.0 (0)
Minimum Temperature(C) 3.0 (-4)
Rainfall (mm) Nil
Mumbai
Maximum Temperature (C) 29.3 (-2)
Minimum Temperature (C) 13.0 (-3)
Rainfall (mm) Nil
Chennai
Maximum Temperature (C) 30.6 (+3)
Minimum Temperature (C) 23.4 (+2)
Rainfall (mm) Nil
Kolkata
Maximum Temperature (C) 26.6 (0)
Minimum Temperature (C) 14.4 (+1)
Rainfall (mm) Nil
Ahmedabad
Maximum Temperature (C) 25.4 (-4)
Minimum Temperature (C) 12.6 (+1)
Rainfall (mm) Nil
Bangalore
Maximum Temperature (C) 28.3 (+1)
Minimum Temperature (C) 15.5 (0)
Rainfall (mm) Nil
Bhopal
Maximum Temperature (C) 22.4 (-3)
Minimum Temperature (C) 11.2 (+1)
Rainfall (mm) Nil
Bhubaneswar
Maximum Temperature (C) 28.2 (0)
Minimum Temperature (C) 13.3 (-2)
Rainfall (mm) Nil
Chandigarh
Maximum Temperature (C) 23.8 (+4)
Minimum Temperature (C) 4.0 (-3)
Rainfall (mm) Nil
Dehradun
Maximum Temperature (C) 22.2 (+3)
Minimum Temperature (C) 6.7 (+1)
Rainfall (mm) Nil
Panaji
Maximum Temperature (C) 32.5 (+1)
Minimum Temperature (C) 19.5 (-1)
Rainfall (mm) Nil
Guwahati
Maximum Temperature (C) 28.0 (0)
Minimum Temperature (C) 12.4 (+2)
Rainfall (mm) Nil
Hyderabad
Maximum Temperature (C) 28.4 (+1)
Minimum Temperature (C) 15.3 (+1)
Rainfall (mm) Nil
Jaipur
Maximum Temperature (C) 23.2 (+1)
Minimum Temperature (C) 3.3 (-5)
Rainfall (mm) Nil
Lucknow
Maximum Temperature (C) 24.6 (+3)
Minimum Temperature (C) 5.2 (-3)
Rainfall (mm) Nil
Nagpur
Maximum Temperature (C) 28.4 (+3)
Minimum Temperature (C) 15.3 (+1)
Rainfall (mm) Nil
Patna
Maximum Temperature (C) 24.8 (+2)
Minimum Temperature (C) 9.8 (0)
Rainfall (mm) Nil
Pune
Maximum Temperature (C) 31.0 (+2)
Minimum Temperature (C) 13.1 (+2)
Rainfall (mm) Nil
Srinagar
Maximum Temperature (C) 7.0 (+2)
Minimum Temperature (C) -4 (-2)
Rainfall (mm) Nil
Thiruvananthapuram
Maximum Temperature (C) 32.5 (+2)
Minimum Temperature (C) 21.8 (0)
Rainfall (mm) Nil