Thursday, January 31, 2008

North India cold

After a relatively warmer beginning to the New Year, it is back to the typical winter shivers, as large parts of the plains of North and West India reel under a severe cold wave.

In Delhi, going to school or office on Tuesday morning felt worse than usual. It was the coldest in five years.

Adampur near Jalandhar in Punjab was the coldest place in the northern India plains on Monday with the temperature touching minus three degrees Celsius.

Temperatures in nearby Amritsar touched minus one degree and large parts of Haryana also reeled under the cold wave with temperatures between one and five degrees below normal.

Further North, Srinagar is freezing at minus five degrees. And Jammu is virtually paralysed. While the hill states of Jammu and Kashmir and Himachal continued to see their regular share of sub-zero temperatures and rain and snow.

The plains from Kolkata to Kutch were also caught in the grip of the cold with temperatures around one degree.

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