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Cold snap continues

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Cold snap continues

Bone chilling conditions cut a swathe through most parts of the country today with many northern states shivering at sub-zero temperatures forcing authorities to order closure of primary schools in the Capital and some Uttar Pradesh districts.

In Uttar Pradesh’s Muzaffarnagar district, four students of a public school fell unconscious due to adverse weather. The authorities ordered the closure of all schools in the district for two days.

In Delhi too, the government ordered closure of primary sections in all schools till February 2 due to “unbearable cold conditions in the city” even as people got a slight respite from chilly conditions with minimum temperature climbing to 5.2 degrees Celsius from yesterday’s 2.3.

The minimum here is likely to hover around four degrees for two-three days due to westerly disturbances over northern states.

Cold wave conditions continued unabated in Himachal Pradesh, triggering a water crisis in Shimla and rendering an estimated 5,000 domestic water connections non-functional.

The city recorded day temperature of 8.7 degrees, while night temperature was minus two degrees. It also witnessed snowflake in the afternoon.

Heavy snowfall was recoded in tourist resort of Manali, Rohtang Pass, Kinnaur and Keylong.

Traffic on the Srinagar-Jammu national highway, the only road link between the valley and the rest of the country, was suspended temporarily this morning following snowfall.

Moderate snowfall was recorded in Srinagar and adjoining areas renewing cold wave conditions in the valley.

The minimum temperature in Srinagar dipped to minus 0.8.

There was no let up from the severe cold wave in Punjab and Haryana where minimum temperatures stayed close to the freezing point. Adampur was the coldest place in the plains, registering a low of minus 1.2 degrees, followed by Amritsar at 0.6.

Freezing cold gripped Chandigarh, where mercury dropped five degrees below normal to settle at 2.4 degrees.

Ambala was the coldest recording a low of 2.3.

Severe cold gripped the northeast, including Sikkim, where moderate to heavy rains brought down temperatures.

Chilly conditions also prevailed at isolated places in Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and Jharkhand.

Night temperatures were appreciably below normal in some parts of Orissa, Bihar, Uttarakhand, Goa, Karnataka and Gujarat.

However, cloudy weather raised temperatures in Rajasthan by one to four degrees. — PTI