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SPECIAL COVERAGE

CHANDIGARH

DELHI

THE TRIBUNE SPECIALS

50 YEARS OF INDEPENDENCE

TERCENTENARY CELEBRATIONS

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

Ambala	22.7	5.5
Amritsar	22.8	2.1
Bhuntar	19.7	0.8
Hisar	23.7	7.1
Jammu	22.4	6.2
Karnal	22.8	5.8
Ludhiana	22.4	2.9
Patiala	23.0	5.6
Shimla	15.9	4.5
Srinagar	—	2.2
Sundernagar	22.6	1.2

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	29	18	0	0
Bangalore	22	19	3	673
Bhopal	26	14	0	1
Bhubaneswar	31	17	0	305
Chennai	28	23	222	1704
Dehra Dun	23	5	0	5
Gangtok	16	9	0	157
Guwahati	26	16	0	128
Hyderabad	30	20	0	22
Jaipur	24	3	0	0
Kolkata	28	16	0	460
Lucknow	25	09	0	5
Mumbai	32	23	0	20
New Delhi	21	5	0	1
Panjim	34	23	0	126
Patna	27	14	0	40
Ranchi	26	17	0	29
Shillong	17	9	0	234
Thiruvananthapuram	33	24	0	627

Adampur coldest in plains
Tribune News Service

New Delhi, December 4
Cold wave conditions are prevailing in some parts of Haryana, Punjab and Rajasthan.

Rainfall: Weather was dry over the region.

Temperatures: Past 24 hours change: The minimum temperatures fell in Jammu and Kashmir and changed little elsewhere.

Departure: They were appreciably below normal in Punjab and west Rajasthan, below normal in Haryana and Jammu and Kashmir and normal in the rest of the region. The lowest temperature in the plains was 0.4°C recorded at Adampur (Punjab).

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

Forecast for Delhi and neighbourhood valid until the morning of December 6: Mainly clear sky. Mist in the morning. The miniimum temperature will be around 6°C.

Farmers weather bulletin for Delhi: Forecast valid until the morning of December 6: Sky will be mainly clear.

Outlook for the subsequent two days: No large change.

Shimla shivers at 2.5°C

Shimla, December 4
Shimla shivered under a severe cold wave today as it recorded the season’s coldest night so far at 2.5 degree Celsius even as the tribal district of Lahaul and Spiti received light snowfall last night.

Shimla recorded this season’s lowest temperature of 2.5 degree Celsius last night which was two to three degrees below normal.

However, the maximum temperature recorded in the town was 17.2 degree Celsius, which was four to five degrees above normal.

Tourists and locals are enjoying the ice-skating that had already begun at the Shimla ice-skating rink since late last month.

Kinnaur, Lahaul and Spiti, Pangi and other high altitude areas continued to reel under severe cold wave conditions, while temperatures in the mid hills hovered around the freezing point.

The 13,050-feet high Rohtang Pass, which is normally closed for vehicular traffic in the first week of November, received another spell of light snowfall last night.

The Pass, which is also called the gateway to the district, was still open for vehicular traffic, while the Kunzum Pass linking Lahaul with Spiti was closed.

The twin tribal valleys of Lahual and Spiti and Pangi in Chamba district were experiencing severe cold with temperatures between minus eight to minus 15 degree Celsius.

The meteorological office predicted snowfall in higher reaches and light to moderate showers at many places in the state in the next 24 hours. — UNI