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SPECIAL COVERAGE

CHANDIGARH

NATIONAL CAPITAL

THE TRIBUNE SPECIALS

50 YEARS OF INDEPENDENCE

TERCENTENARY CELEBRATIONS

Extremes
Town	Max (in Celsius)	Min (in Celsius)

Ambala	11.7	04.5
Amritsar	14.8	01.2
Bhuntar	13.2	0.0
Hisar	13.6	04.2
Jammu	—	05.5
Ludhiana	14.7	04.4
Patiala	14.2	04.5
Rohtak	—	05.4
Shimla	11.6	02.7
Srinagar	—	01.3
Sundernagar	11.1	00.4

NATION

Read under headings Max (maximum temperature), Min (minimum temperature), R (rainfall in past 24 hours) and TR (total rainfall):

Station	Max	Min	R	TR
Ahmedabad	27	13	0	0
Bangalore	26	14	0	0
Bhopal	26	08	0	0
Bhubaneshwar	27	13	0	0
Chennai	29	20	0	0
Dehra Dun	18	4	0	0
Gangtok	13	5	0	0
Guwahati	18	12	0	0
Gaya	12	08	0	0
Hyderabad	27	15	0	0
Indore	28	10	-	-
Jaipur	19	6	-	-
Jamshedpur	26	6	0	0
Kolkota	21	11	0	0
Kolhapur	31	14	0	0
Lucknow	16	6	0	0
Mahabaleshwar	28	13	0	0
Mangalore	34	20	0	0
Mumbai	28	18	0	0
Nagpur	29	14	0	0
Patna	13	07	0	0
Pune	31	11	0	0
Rajkot	27	11	0	0
Ranchi	22	08	0	0
Shillong	14	5	0	0
Thapuram	33	21	0	0
Udaipur	23	9	0	0

Ground frost likely in Haryana areas
Tribune News Service

New Delhi, January 4
Cold wave conditions have abated in east Uttar Pradesh, while these continue to prevail in the most parts of Haryana, Punjab and Uttar Pradesh and some parts of west Rajasthan.

Rainfall: Weather was dry in the region.

Temperatures: Past 24 hours change: Minimum temperatures fell appreciably in Punjab, fell in Haryana, Jammu and Kashmir and west Rajasthan and changed little elsewhere.

Departure: They were appreciably below normal in east Uttar Pradesh, below normal in Haryana, Punjab and west Rajasthan and normal in the rest of the region. The lowest temperature in the plains was 1.2°C recorded at Amritsar (Punjab).

Forecast (valid until the morning of January 6): Rain or snow is likely at a few places in Jammu and Kashmir and at isolated places in Himachal Pradesh. Weather will be mainly dry in the rest of the region.

Low temperature warning: Ground frost is likely at a few places in Haryana, Punjab and Uttar Pradesh and at isolated places in west Rajasthan during the next two nights.

Forecast for Delhi and neighbourhood (valid until the morning of January 6): Cold day. Partly cloudy sky. Fog till forenoon. Minimum temperature will be around 5°C.

Farmers’ weather bulletn for Delhi: (Forecast valid until the morning of January 6th): Sky will be partly cloudy.

Amritsar coldest at 1.2°C

Chandigarh, January 4
People in the North-West region continued to reel under spine curdling cold wave conditions while dense fog played havoc with air, rail and road traffic. Amritsar district(1.2°C), bordering Pakistan and Srinagar, the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir, were the coldest places as icy winds blowing across the fresh snow-clad mountains brought the minimum temperature to 1.3°C. Higher reaches received fresh spells of mild snow in the past 24 hours. Minimum temperature in Jammu dipped by three degrees to 5.5°C.

The Indian Airlines and Jet Airways to and fro flights, flew in here almost two hours behind schedule because of poor visibility. However, the IA Chandigarh-New Delhi-Mumbai and Jet Airways Chandigarh-New Delhi return flights took off on time.

Most of the trains in the Northern Railway sector remained half an hour to three hours behind schedule

Chandigarhians again experienced a cold day as the day temperature hovered around 11°C, while the minimum temperature dropped to 5.4°C, two degrees below normal. Ludhiana (4.4°C), Patiala (4.5°C) were among other cities of Punjab that shivered due to the cold waves. People came out of the houses around noon as the fog lifted and Sun came out.

Ambala (4.5°C), Hisar (4.2°C), Karnal (5°C) and Rohtak (5.4°C) were among the Haryana towns where the minimum temperature dropped by two to three degrees.

Shimla, capital of HP, reported the low of 2.7°C, while the minimum temperature at Bhuntar dipped to freezing point and Sunder Nagar was cold at 0.4°C.

Weathermen here have forecast mainly dry weather in the lower reaches and recurring fog over the next 48 hours. — UNI