With predictions of minus 4 degrees for North India, here is a list of the coldest places

Check the temperatures in different parts of North India:

• At minus 4.7 degrees Celsius, Fatehpur in Rajasthan’s Sikar district recorded the lowest minimum temperature in India’s northwest plains.
• Churu, located near the Thar Desert, recorded the season’s lowest minimum temperature of minus 2.5 degrees Celsius.
• Punjab’s Faridkot shuddered at minus one degree Celsius.
• Many parts of northwestern and southeastern Rajasthan recorded a minimum temperature in the range of 1 to 3 degrees Celsius.
• Parts of Punjab, Haryana, Delhi and southwestern Uttar Pradesh recorded their minimum temperatures in the range of 3 to 5 degrees Celsius.
• In Delhi, the mercury dropped to 4.7 degrees Celsius at the Safdarjung Observatory, the city’s main weather station.
• A cold snap saw the minimum temperature drop to 2.6 degrees Celsius in Jafarpur, 3.8 degrees Celsius at Lodhi Road, 3 degrees Celsius at Ayanagar and 3.2 degrees Celsius at Ridge in the national capital.
• In Punjab, Amritsar recorded a low of 1.6 degrees Celsius.
• Ludhiana, Patiala, Pathankot, Bathinda and Gurdaspur experienced cold weather conditions of 4.9, 4.2, 8, 1 and 3.7 degrees Celsius respectively.
• Chandigarh registered 6.7 degrees Celsius.

IMD also predicted that minimum temperatures are likely to drop further by about 2 degrees Celsius in many parts of north-west and central India through January 17-18 and severe cold snaps are very likely in many parts of India. Rajasthan, Punjab and Haryana. , and Delhi during this period.

“Ground Frost likely in isolated locations over Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana and Rajasthan on January 16-18,” it said.

(With PTI inputs)