The Tribune, Chandigarh, India

NATION

Read under headings Max (maximum temperature), Min (minimum temperature), R (rainfall in past 24 hours) and TR (Total rain since October 1):

Station	Max	Min	R	TR
Ahmedabad	28	10	0	0
Allahabad	23	7	0	3
Aurangabad	30	14	0	3
Bangalore	28	16	0	1
Bhavnagar	29	12	0	0
Bhopal	26	9	0	4
Bhubaneswar	30	17	0	0
Kolkata	24	13	0	0
Chennai	31	20	0	tr
DehraDun	21	21	0	25
Gangtok	12	5	0	0
Guwahati	23	10	0	0
Gaya	22	7	0	7
Hyderabad	32	19	0	11
Indore	—	9	—	6
Jaipur	28	6	0	1
Jammu	15	3	—	—
Jamshedpur	27	9	—	—
Kodaikanal	19	7	0	11
Kolhapur	31	19	0	1
Lucknow	20	5	0	3
Mahabaleshwar	28	15	0	6
Mangalore	34	23	0	0
Mumbai	29	20	0	1
Nagpur	31	17	0	4
NewDelhi	19	5	0	15
Panjim	32	23	0	8
Patna	19	5	0	12
Pune	31	14	0	7
Raikot	28	10	0	0
Ranchi	26	9	0	3
Ratnagiri	31	21	0	33
Shimla	12	5	0	22
Sholapur	33	21	0	5
Srinagar	13	-5	0	0
Tiruchirapalli	30	19	0	0
Thiruvananthapuram	33	23	0	9
Udaipur	25	5	0	0

1.4°C recorded at Sriganganagar
Tribune News Service

NEW DELHI, Jan 14 — Cold wave conditions continue to prevail in Jammu and Kashmir and Uttar Pradesh and have extended into parts of north Rajasthan. Cold wave conditions have abated from Haryana, Chandigarh and Delhi as also Punjab.

Rainfall: Weather was dry over the region.

Temperature: Past 24 hours change: Minimum temperatures rose in Punjab, fell in east Rajasthan and changed little elsewhere.

Departures: They were below normal in Haryana and east Rajasthan and the remaining parts of Jammu and Kashmir and Uttar Pradesh and normal in the rest of the region. The lowest temperature in the plains was 1.4°C recorded at Sriganganagar (Rajasthan).

Forecast valid until the morning of 16th: Weather will be mainly dry over the region.

Forecast for Delhi and neighbourhood valid until the morning of 16th: Fog in the morning. Hazy sky later. No significant change in minimum temperature.

Farmers weather bulletin for Delhi: Forecast valid until the morning of 16th: Sky will be mainly clear.

Outlook for the subsequent two days: No large change.

Sun brings respite in region

CHANDIGARH, Jan 14 (PTI) — After early morning foggy conditions the sun shined in Punjab, Haryana and Chandigarh today giving respite to the people from the cold wave as the mercury soared by about 2°C in most parts of the region.

In the plains of Punjab and Haryana, Amritsar was the coldest place, where the mercury recorded a low of 2.9°C, one degree below normal, a weather office spokesman said here.

Dense fog early in the day affected road and rail traffic as several mail and express trains, including the Himalayan Queen and Shatabdi Express, ran behind schedule.

The temperature was four degrees below normal in Ambala as mercury recorded a low of 3.4°C while Patiala had a low of 6.5°C.

Chandigarh had a minimum temperature of 6°C, which was one degree below normal.The bright sun shine in the city brought relief to the residents from the battering cold conditions for over a week.

The met office has predicted dry weather in Punjab and Haryana in the next 24 hours and ground frost in many places of these two states during the next few nights.