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Cold kills two more in Rajasthan

With two more deaths reported from Karauli and Alwar towns, the cold wave toll in Rajasthan this winter has gone up to seven.

Chittorgarh town remained the coldest place in the state.

Cold wave conditions also prevailed in east Uttar Pradesh and in parts of Orissa and Bihar plateau.

Night temperatures were appreciably below normal in parts of Punjab, east Rajasthan, Gujarat region, north central Maharashtra, Marathwada and Vidarbha, and were below normal in Assam and Meghalaya, southwest Rajasthan and in parts of Telangana, interior Tamil Nadu and in the remaining parts of north central Maharashtra.

They were above normal in parts of northwest Rajasthan and were normal in the rest of the country outside Arunchal Pradesh from where the data were sparse.

Rain or thundershowers occurred at isolated places in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

Very light rain also occurred at isolated places in Tamil Nadu.

Mainly dry weather prevailed over the rest of the country.

Rain or snow is likely at a few places in Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir, and at isolated places in hills of west Uttar Pradesh.

Rain or thundershowers are likely at isolated places in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Haryana, Punjab and Tamil Nadu.

Mainly dry weather will prevail over the rest of the country.

 
                     Temperatures (deg C)

	               Max           Min

Agartala               25(-1)        9(-1)
Ahmedabad              27(-2)        13(+1)
Allahabad              22(-2)        7(-2)
Amritsar               15(-4)        3(-1)
Aurangabad             28(-1)        8(-2)
Bangalore              28(+1)        16(+1)
Bhopal                 26            9(-1)
Bareilly               15(-7)        7(-2)
Bhubaneshwar           26(-2)        11(-5)
Bombay                 28(-1)        17(-2)
Calcutta               23(-4)        12(-2)
Chandigarh             14(-6)        5(-2)
Dehra Dun              12(-7)        3(-3)
Dibrugarh              24(+1)        7(-2)
Gadag                  30            16(-1)
Gangtok                15(+1)        3(-1)
Guwahati               23            7(-3)
Hyderabad              29(+1)        16(+2)
Indore                 29(+3)        9(-1)
Imphal                 23(+2)        3(-1)
Jabalpur               25            8(-1)
Jaipur                 21(-1)        9(+1)
Jodhpur                25            7(-2)
Kanyakumari            31            24(+1)
Lucknow                19(-3)        5(-3)
Madras                 32(+3)        22(+2)
Madurai                31(+1)        20(-1)
Mahabaleshwar          27(+3)        14
Mangalore              33(+1)        22(+1)
Minicoy                31(+1)        24(+1)
Nagpur                 26(-2)        9(-4)
New Delhi              13(-8)        8(+1)
Panaji                 32            19
Patna                  20(-3)        5(-5)
Pune                   29            9(-2)
Port Blair             31(+2)        22(-1)
Rajkot                 27(-1)        12(+1)
Raipur                 27(-1)        9(-4)
Shillong               18(+3)        7(+3)
Shimla                 7(-2)         2
Srinagar               3(-1)         0(+2)
Thiruvananthapuram     32(+1)        22
Tiruchirapalli         31(+1)        21
Varanasi               21(-2)        6(-3)
Vishakhapatnam         29(+1)        17

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