A thick blanket of fog engulfed the national capital and its suburbs on the New Year Day with visibility dropping to zero, hitting domestic and international operations at the Delhi airport and delaying trains departing from and arriving to Delhi. With mercury at 5.7 degrees Celsius, dropping a notch below the season’s average on Sunday …
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January 1, 2018The Himachal Pradesh capital on Monday saw the season’s lowest temperature of 2.7 degrees Celsius despite no white New Year’s Eve. The temperatures remained below the freezing point in many places in the state, an official of the meteorological office here told IANS. Keylong, headquarters of Lahaul and Spiti, was the coldest at a minimum …
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January 1, 2018Reconstruction work at the Kedarnath shrine in Uttarakhand has been suspended due to inclement weather and sub-zero temperature, an official said on Friday. The Met said snowfall continued in the region and on Thursday the mercury dropped to minus 5 degrees Celsius. Seventy labourers and a group of engineers have returned from the Hindu shrine, …
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December 15, 2017Night temperatures across Kashmir division dipped after a day’s respite with the mercury settling below freezing point at most places, including Leh, which was the coldest place in the state at minus 11.4 degrees. The Meteorological Department here has predicted mainly dry weather in the state for the week ahead which could lead to a …
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