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Fog engulfs North India

Amritsar coldest at 1.6° C, Mount Abu 1° Celsius

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White blanket: Passengers waiting for a train on a foggy Sunday morning in Amritsar.

Chandigarh: Many parts of northern India reeled under biting cold conditions as dense fog engulfed Punjab and Haryana with Amritsar registering a minimum temperature of 1.6 degrees Celsius.

Amritsar in Punjab was coldest in the plains with a minimum temperature of 1.6 degrees Celsius, the Meteorological department said here on Sunday.

The night temperature at Amritsar has been steadily falling over the past one week. Visibility was zero in the morning in the city that remained under thick fog even in the afternoon, adversely hitting normal life.

Several parts of Punjab and Haryana battled with zero visibility. Adampur, Halwara and Bathinda in Punjab and Ambala, Sirsa and Karnal in Haryana witnessed zero visibility.

While Ludhiana and Patiala in Punjab registered a minimum temperature of 6.5 and 7 degrees Celsius respectively, Ambala in Haryana saw the minimum temperature nose-diving to 3.5 degrees Celsius, a sharp fall of four degrees from the previous night.

Narnaul 4.1

Narnaul in Haryana registered minimum temperature of 4.1 degrees Celsius, down by two degrees.

Karnal experienced a cold night at 4.8 degrees C, three degrees below normal, while Hisar recorded a low of 7 degrees Celsius.

The minimum at Chandigarh settled at 7.2 degrees Celsius, a degree above normal.

The National Capital, meanwhile, saw the minimum temperature rising by 0.7 degrees, settling at 7.2 degrees Celsius. This is unusually warm for the city compared to the previous years, it said.

The neighbouring state of Rajasthan also saw increase in the minimum temperature due to the western disturbances.

The hill town of Mount Abu was coldest in the State at one degree Celsius, while Pilani at 5 degrees Celsius and Churu at 7 degrees Celsius saw an upward trend in the night temperatures.

Cold wave in H.P.

Though there was no let-up in the cold wave conditions in Himachal Pradesh, snowfall continued to elude picturesque Shimla, leaving tourists and revellers disappointed.

The city recorded a minimum temperature of 5 degrees Celsius.

High altitude tribal districts of the State, on the other hand, continued to register below zero degrees temperatures.

Lahaul and Spiti, Kinnaur and Pangi valley in Chamba witnessed intense cold conditions with temperature ranging from minus 5 degrees Celsius to minus 11 degrees Celsius. -- PTI

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