Narnaul in Haryana recorded 2.3°C as the minimum temperature on Friday morning, which is 3 degrees below the normal and close to minimum of 3°C recorded in Shimla. Similarly Agra in west Uttar Pradesh saw the minimum settle at 3.3°C, lower than the morning minimum of 4°C recorded in Nainital.
Katra in Jammu and Kashmir, recorded a maximum of 5.7°C on Friday morning, while Bhatinda and Amritsar in Punjab saw the minimum settle a degree lower at 4°C and 4.8°C, respectively. Gaya in Bihar recorded a minimum of 4.5°C, which is marginally lower than 4.6°C recorded in Dharamsala.
Other places in the plains to have recorded minimum temperatures close to 5 degree Celsius are - Chandigarh 5°C, Hisar 5.1°C, Lucknow 5.5°C and Delhi 6.3°C.
This is not all, cold day conditions have also gripped many parts of the northern plains with Punjab being the worst affected. Amritsar recorded 11.9°C as the maximum temperature on Thursday, which is 8 degrees below the normal. While state Capital Chandigarh saw the day temperature settle at 11°C, a whopping 10 degrees below the normal average for the month. Similarly Bhatinda and Ferozepore recorded maximums of 10.2°C and 10.4°C, respectively.
Therefore we can conclude that the plains of North India are observing weather conditions similar to that in the hills, except that snowfall is never a possibility here.