By IANS
New Delhi : Even as the met Office forecast a fall in minimum temperatures over the next two days, the minimum temperature in Delhi continued to rise for a third day and reached eight degrees Celsius Tuesday.
The minimum temperature Monday was 6.2 degrees Celsius and 5 degrees Celsius Sunday.
The minimum temperature Wednesday is expected to be around eight degrees Celsius.
The Met Office has forecast isolated rain or thundershowers over the northwest India during in the next 24 hours ending Wednesday evening.
The lowest minimum temperature of 1.7 degrees Celsius in the plains was recorded in Ganganagar, Rajasthan.
Rain and snowfall are likely over Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh and parts of Uttarakhand Tuesday.
The following are the maximum and minimum temperatures and rainfall in major cities for the 24 hours till Tuesday morning, with figures in brackets denoting deviations from the average.
City Maximum Temperature Minimum Temperature Rainfall
(C) (C) (mm)
Delhi 22.5 (0) 8.0 (-1) Nil
Mumbai 24.5 (-6) 10.2 (-6) Nil
Chennai 31.1 (+2) 22.8 (+1) Nil
Kolkata 25.2 (-3) 15.0 (-1) Nil
Ahmedabad 22.7 (-7) 7.4 (-7) Nil
Bangalore 29.3 (+1) 19.6 (+4) Nil
Bhopal 24.6 (-3) 7.4 (-5) Nil
Bhubaneswar 27.0 (-3) 18.3 (+3) Nil
Chandigarh 22.4 (0) 8.0 (0) Nil
Dehradun 21.7 (+1) 8.5 (+2) Nil
Panaji 30.5 (0) 18.2 (-2) Nil
Guwahati 24.0 (-2) 8.4 (-3) Nil
Hyderabad 25.0 (-5) 19.9 (+4) 0.2
Jaipur 21.0 (-3) 5.2 (-5) Nil
Lucknow 23.8 (-1) 10.4 (+1) Nil
Nagpur 29.8 (-1) 16.7 (-3) Nil
Patna 23.8 (-1) 11.4 (0) Nil
Pune 26.2 (-5) 10.6 (0) Nil
Srinagar 5.4 (-2) -0.2 (+1) 14.5
Thiruvananthapuram 31.5 (0) 23.8 (+2) Nil