Chandigarh: Cold weather conditions
prevailed in most parts of Punjab and neighbouring Haryana
where Bathinda was the coldest place at 4 degrees Celsius
today.
Among other places in Punjab where night temperature
dropped below normal included Faridkot, where the mercury
settled at 4.8 degrees Celsius, a MeT Department official said
here.
Adampur and Amritsar were equally cold recording
respective minimum temperature of 5.1 degrees Celsius and 5.4
degrees Celsius.
Gurdaspur and Halwara also braved the chill recording
respective lows of 6.9 degrees Celsius and 7.2 degrees
Celsius.
The minimum temperature at Ludhiana settled at 8.1
degrees Celsius while Patiala recorded a low of 9.2 degrees
Celsius. Pathankot's minimum settled at 8.2 degrees Celsius.
In Haryana, Hisar was the coldest place recording a low
of 4.8 degrees Celsius today, down four notches against normal
limit.
Narnaul, too, experienced a cold night at 5.5 degrees
Celsius, down one notch against normal limit. PTI
Among other places in Haryana where cold weather
conditions prevailed included Sirsa, which recorded a low of
6 degrees Celsius, Rohtak was cold at 6.4 degrees Celsius
while Karnal's low settled at 7 degrees Celsius.
Ambala, however, recorded a low of 10.9 degrees Celsius,
which was three notches above normal limit.
Chandigarh, the common capital of the two states, too
recorded three degrees above normal minimum at 10 degrees
Celsius.
