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Bonfires light Andhra as mercury dips

Bonfires, the main remedy of the have-nots against cold, have become a common sight in Andhra Pradesh's Telangana and coastal districts, with the night temperatures there falling to well below normal.

The weather office in Hyderabad said the wave was likely to continue in Adilabad, Nizamabad, Karimnagar and Medak for the next 24 hours.

While Medak, Nizamabad and Ramagundam recorded the minimum temperature of 10 degree celsius, the state capital registered 10.5 degree celsius.

Meanwhile, cold wave conditions also prevailed in Bihar, Punjab, Kashmir, north central Maharashtra, Marathwada and parts of Orissa.

Night temperatures were appreciably below normal in parts of Uttar Pradesh, north Gujarat region and north Andhra Pradesh, and below normal in parts of Assam, Konkan and Goa, Rayalaseema and north Tamil Nadu.

They were appreciably above normal in parts of Haryana and west Rajasthan, and above normal in parts of Saurashtra and Kerala.

They were normal over the rest of the country outside Arunachal Pradesh and east Madhya Pradesh from where the data were sparse.

Rain or thundershowers occurred at a few places in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands and Lakshadweep. Mainly dry weather prevailed over the rest of the country.

Rain or snow is likely at isolated places in Jammu and Kashmir.

Rain or thundershowers are likely at isolated places in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, south Tamil Nadu, south Kerala and Lakshadweep.

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

 
 
                       Temperatures (deg C)

	               Max           Min

Agartala               27(+1)        10(-1)
Ahmedabad              29            7(-5)
Allahabad              19(-5)        7(-2)
Amritsar               18(-2)        1(-3)
Aurangabad             28(-1)        7(-3)
Bangalore              28(+2)        15
Bareilly               15(-8)        5(-4)
Bhopal                 27(+1)        9(-1)
Bhubaneshwar           29(+1)        11(-5)
Bombay                 32(+2)        19(-1)
Calcutta               25(-2)        13(-1)
Dibrugarh              25(+2)        9
Gadag                  29            13(-3)
Gangtok                16(+1)        6(+1)
Guwahati               25(+1)        10(-1)
Hyderabad              28            11(-2)
Indore                 30(+4)        9(-1)
Jabalpur               25            8(-1)
Jaipur                 26(+3)        9
Jodhpur                28(+3)        9(-1)
Kanyakumari            28(-2)        24(+1)
Lucknow                16(-7)        5(-2)
Madras                 29(+1)        20(-1)
Madurai                30            20(-1)
Mahabaleshwar          28(+4)        12(-2)
Mangalore              33(+1)        22(+1)
Minicoy                30            24(+1)
Nagpur                 29            10(-2)
New Delhi              20(-2)        6(-1)
Panaji                 32            18(-2)
Patna                  17(-7)        8(-2)
Pune                   28(-1)        6(-4)
Port Blair             30(+1)        24(+1)
Rajkot                 29            11
Shillong               18(+2)        8(+2)
Shimla                 17(+7)        5(+2)
Srinagar               7             -5(-3)
Thiruvananthapuram     30(-1)        24(+2)
Tiruchirapalli         29            21
Varanasi               18(-6)        6(-3)
Vishakhapatnam         29(+1)        14(-4)



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