By IANS
New Delhi : The weather gods played hide and seek with Delhi and the northern plains Friday too with days being sunny and warm and the nights a shivering cold.
The residents of the national capital saw the daytime temperature touching nearly 24 degrees Celsius with a sunny and clear sky. But the nightitme temperature remained pegged around five degrees Celsius.
It was the same story across the northern plains with most of the cities having warm days and cold nights. Chandigarh had the maximum and minimum temperatures of 23 degrees and five degrees respectively and Lucknow too registered identical temperatures.
The lowest minimum temperature in the plains was two degrees Celsius recorded at Sirsawa in Uttar Pradesh.
However, the Met Office forecast that with the setting in of the northwesterly winds in the plains, the minimum temperatures may slip again from Feb 18 across the northern plains.
Meanwhile, the northern chill seems to have spread to eastern and central parts of the country. The Met Office forecast the cold spell in the region to continue for the next couple of days till Sunday.
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 23.5 (0) 5.7 (-4) Nil
Mumbai 32.4 (+1) 16.2 (-1) Nil
Chennai 31.5 (+1) 24.1 (+3) 6.3
Kolkata 25.7 (-3) 11.8 (-5) Nil
Ahmedabad 30.0 (-1) 10.5 (-4) Nil
Bangalore 27.7 (-1) 18.8 (+3) Nil
Bhopal 27.2 (-2) 10.6 (-2) Nil
Bhubaneswar 28.1 (-3) 15.3 (-4) Nil
Chandigarh 23.4 (-1) 5.2 (-4) Nil
Dehradun 23.0 (+1) 7.4 (-1) Nil
Panaji 31.5 (0) 24.0 (+3) Nil
Guwahati 24.6 (-2) 10.1 (-2) Nil
Hyderabad 29.4 (-2) 18.5 (+2) Nil
Jaipur 25.2 (-1) 8.2 (-3) Nil
Lucknow 22.7 (-3) 5.0 (-5) Nil
Nagpur 30.5 (-3) 12.9 (-2) Nil
Patna 22.0 (-5) 7.7 (-6) Nil
Pune 33.2 (+1) 15.5 (+3) Nil
Srinagar 7.0 (-1) -0.8 (-1) Nil
Thiruvananthapuram 32.4 (+3) 22.4 (+1) 3.2