TEMPERATURE FALLS TO ZERO IN PUNJAB, INDIA; WHERE SUMMER TEMP. CROSSES 46'C

Entire Northern India is in the grip of severe

cold. The temperature touched zero in

Punjab at many places.

Amritsar was coldest at zero degree. Leh,

in Jammu & Kashmir made residents shiver at

minus -19 degrees celcius. Two people

died of cold in Uttranchal.

Delhi temp. falled to 5.2 degree celcius,

the coldest of this season yet. Thick fog

engulfed Delhi making the visibility almost 2

feet.

Heavy snowfall was witnessed in upper

ranges of Jammu & Kashmir, Uttranchal and

Himachal Pradesh leading to cold waves in

the adjoining plains of Punjab, Haryana and

Delhi. Srinagar was at 4.4 followed by Jammu

at 6.8.

Kazza in Lahaul-Spiti temp. was minus -11.4

and many parts of the Spiti River were frozen

to hard ice. Rohtak, Haryana also shivered at

zero.

--DR. NAVRAJ SINGH SANDHU (PAHS-1)

Tags: ZERO TEMP. IN PUNJAB , INDIAN PLAINS