Cyclone Hudhud may have stayed away from North India including Punjab, but it has brought the much needed respite from high temperatures. While the day temperatures are taking a dip gradually, nights are becoming cooler as October advances.
The low pressure area covered Chhattisgarh, parts of U.P. and M.P. that resulted in incursion of moisture over parts of northwest India including Delhi, Haryana, Uttarakhand and Punjab. Moreover, the strong western disturbance over Pakistan that led to snowfall in Jammu and Kashmir and heavy rains in Himachal Pradesh also resulted in an increase in moisture over the region.
The proximity to these systems has enabled day temperatures to decrease by a whopping 7-8 degrees in Punjab and night temperatures marginally, giving rise to cooler days and nights and making Punjab the coldest among all plains including Delhi, Haryana and East Rajasthan.
Chandigarh was cool with maximum temperature of 25.2 degrees, seven degrees below average. The minimum was 16.6ºC on Wednesday.
Amritsar recorded night temperature of 13.4ºC yesterday, while Kapurthala observed minimum temperature of 12.8 ºC yesterday.
The temperatures in Punjab were the lowest as compared to cities in other plains. While Jaipur and Jaisalmer observed minimums of lower 20s, Ambala, Karnal and Delhi observed minimums above 15 ºC.
However, the spell is not expected to sustain for long since both the systems – low pressure area and western disturbance have moved away.
