New Delhi: Cold wave intensified in North India on Sunday claiming six more lives, all in Uttar Pradesh, as thick fog disrupted road and rail traffic at several places.
Six more people succumbed to the piercing cold in Uttar Pradesh since Saturday evening pushing the state-wide death count to 26.
Fog hampered movement of road and rail traffic in several parts of the state where Meerut was the coldest place recording a low of 2.2 degrees Celsius.
Delhiites woke up to another cold day with the minimum temperature touching five degrees Celsius, three notches below normal.
The maximum in the national capital was recorded at 23 degrees, a notch above normal.
Cold wave intensified in Punjab and Haryana with minimum temperatures dipping up to five degrees at many places.
Hisar and Rohtak were coldest places in the region with mercury settling at 1.6 deg C each, five degrees below normal, Met office said.
As fog engulfed parts of the two states, visibility reduced to even less than 50-mt especially in Patiala, Ambala and Karnal.
Chandigarh recorded a minimum temperature of 5.3 deg C, 2 notches below normal.
Karnal and Narnaul in Haryana settled at lows of 2.6 and 2.5 deg C, down by five and three notches respectively.
In Punjab, Amritsar recorded a minimum of 2 deg C, down by 2 notches, as Ludhiana and Patiala recorded lows of 3.2 deg C and 5 deg C respectively.
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