Thursday, January 03, 2013

Lowest Maximum recorded on 4th Jan in the plains was 8.2c at Amritsar and Karnal...
Lowest (as per information till noon) on Saturday morning is   0.0c at Narnaul,  0,2c at Hindon.

Pune followed vagaries' estimate and dropped to 7.6c on Saturday morning, now lets see if the NW follows the vagaries' "after Saturday" forecast (of rise by 2/3c)

For those interested..vagaries extreme blog updated (cold wave page) with 1967 cold wave records.... 

http://vagariesmum.blogspot.in/

Coldest in the Plains near freezing as estimated...on Friday , 4th Jan,  morning...0.6c at Pilani and Hindon...




Some places in NCR and Punjab expected to slip to near freezing point on Friday Morning !

Mumbai City Forecast: 
                                 S'Cruz Temperature range: 
Friday 4th:        29c (Friday Day time) - 14c (Friday Morning)
Saturday 5th:  28c (Saturday Daytime) - 15c (Saturday Morning)
Sunday 6th:    30c (Sunday Daytime) -  17c (Sunday morning)
Monday 7th:    30c (Monday Day time) - 18c (Monday morning)

Pune:
Friday will be between 32 and morning will be 13c.
Saturday and Sunday will see a drop to 30 - 10c. 



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The following readings are reported from IMD's designated stations for recordings... Mercury in Fathepur area of Shekhawati region touched - 2.7c mark breaking a record of 22 years on Monday, 31st December 2012..

On Thursday, 3rd Jan, the low was -0.3c....


On January 10, 1989 and 1997, the region had recorded a temperature of 0c. 


On Monday minimum temperature in Fatehpur was -2.7c, Sikar  - 0.1c and in Churu the minimum temperature was 0.4c.


(Thanks Arpit, for drawing my attention to this news).



A severe cold wave has been sweeping the Northern regions, specially the plains, from 30th December.
Some extreme lows recently recorded :

30th Dec 2012; Amritsar max temp: 9.4c...Sri Ganganagar 0.6C

31st December Lucknow AP: 0.7c...

1st Jan 2013: Hindon: 0.6c,  Churu and Narnaul: 0.7c,  Agra: 0.9c....Delhi 4c, 

2nd Jan:  Muzzafarnagar : 0.6c...Bareilly  0.9c, Aligarh 1.2c, 

Lowest Day Temperature was at Hindon at 8.4c and Sri Ganganagar   8.6c
Max on 2nd at Palam 9.7c and Sjung 9.8c. In 1973 Dec, Delhi had a max at 9c...

3rd Jan: Lowest day temp was 9.1c at Patiala. Lowest at Bikaner was 0.4c...Across the border in the plains of Pakistan, 

31st Dec 2012-- Sibbi was frozen at -5c...and the day was 24.5c, the difference a startling 29.5c between day and night.

1st Jan: Sibbi -1.5c, Nokkundi  0c, Mithi 1.0c, 

2nd Jan: Sibbi  -2.0c..., Gawadar  7c, Karachi 8.0c. 



Results of contest put up as on end Dec..
Jan entries open till 15th Jan..please note for jan no rainfall for Vhennai and Bangalore , BUT minimum temperatures for CHENNAI CITY and Bangalore to be included....

24 comments:

Arpit Sharma said...

Thnx sir...:)

Neeraj said...

The lowest here so far, 1.3 C on 30 december morning. And no rain after 18 september (a total of 3 mms only after that date till now).

Abhijit Modak said...

Delhi Ncr min temp today is S' jung 2.7c, Palam 3.4c, Hindon 0.6c , Gurgaon 0.7c.

Abhijit Modak said...

Mumbai min temp for today is Santacruz 12.6c, Colaba 17.1c

Abhijit Modak said...

Palghar AWS coastal town in Thane district recorded lowest min temp 9.2 c at 7.30am today

Abhijit Modak said...

Nashik min temp for today is 6.4c. Pune min temp is 12.1c today. So Pune is just 0.5c cooler today than Mumbai !!

Arpit Sharma said...

A very important question coming in my mind from the past 2-3 days...Rajesh Kapadia sir:Why Punjab is witnessing above normal minimum temperatures...cities like Amritsar,Jalandhar,Ludhiana experiencing above normal temperatures?

Rajesh said...

Arpit: I have answered your question, though i am not an expert, on the "Inter Active" Page of this blog...views may differ.

Abhijit: AWS minimums are difficult to judge..as it is hourly recording..

Abhijit Modak said...

Okk. Sir. But atleast giving some idea of particular area. Now take today's example only. Santacruz in Mumbai city area which is also near to coast was having min temp 12.6 C. So Palghar which is 100km north and open area too can easily 2C lesser than Mumbai. So atleast if not 9.2 C but 10.6C quite possible !

Neeraj said...

It looks that Wednesday and Thursday morning here could be the coldest this winter, temperature-wise.(Your view Rajesh sir?)

Rajesh said...

Neeraj: Sorry Neeraj, i should have pushed the "light Blue" shade in the vagaries daigram into Nepal also...so, i feel the cold conditions will increase on sunday and Monday in Kathmandu...possibly near 0c..

Arpit Sharma said...

Rajesh sir:This time i want your forecast to go wrong for NWI...but i know cold conditions gonna abate from 7 jan...

Anonymous said...

@Rajesh
These have got to be all time record low average temperatures not only for these cities but for the entire plains of North India.

These are the lowest averages i found for 5th Jan 2013.

City Max Min Avg
Gorakhpur 9.2 2.4 5.8
Amritsar 8.2 4.0 6.1
Chandigarh 8.4 4.0 6.2

Anonymous said...

The data got distorted by the default formatting so i am posting again. Hope it is better this time.

Gorakhpur Max 9.2 Min 2.4 Avg 5.8

Amritsar Max 8.2 Min 4.0 Avg 6.1

Chandigarh Max 8.4 Min 4.0 Avg 6.2

Neeraj said...

Jan 5, 2013. Lowest temp so far this winter, here, min 0.7 C ~ max 18.2 C.

sset said...

1. North India, Maha freezinf cold, South India warm and hot.

2. NEM comes to an end, no rain over TN since 2013. With weak NEM (almost failure)- TN seems to be driest state of India, followed by SE Interior KAR, south interior AP. This phenomenon is seen for consequtive 3rd year. Definitiely proves RAJ and GUJ are no longer dry states but it turns to be more wetter.

3. Interesting phenomenon on "RED RAINS" - most recently seen over Sri Lanka, KERALA. Interesting attributes related algae, comet particles, aliens.

http://www.nation.lk/edition/fine/item/13541-%E2%80%98red-rain-from-outer-space-prof-chandra-wickramasinghe.html

Abhijit Modak said...

Mumbai min temp also further drops today
as : Santacruz records 10.4 C , Colaba
records 16.1 C today morning. So lowest
there too for current season.

Abhijit Modak said...

Yeah..So mine today's morning Badlapur min temp reading of 9.3 C too almost near too accurate..

Abhijit Modak said...

Today min temp for Delhi is S'Jung 1.9 C, Palam 2.8 C.

Abhijit Modak said...

Yeah.. Arpit.. You were expecting that this time Rajesh Sir prediction should go wrong ! So vagaries of weather has obeyed you Arpit.. Today is Sunday temps have drop further in Delhi, Mumbai & Badlapur belt !

Abhijit Modak said...

Also temp has drop further in Nashik too as it is 4.4 C for today.

Neeraj said...

January 6 morning. This winter's lowest temp is being reported here, around 0C. The lowest ever recorded temp here is -3.5 C on Jan 11, 1978.

Unknown said...

I recorded 8.2 C in Kandivali (W) Mumbai today

Rajesh said...

Surendra Dwivedi: Yes, the averages show a cold trend..average is more important as the real feel than a very low minimum...

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