Customers browse through used winter clothes at a roadside stall in Amritsar on December 6, 2015. (AFP Photo)
The ongoing cold wave conditions today continued to sweep Haryana and Punjab, with minimum temperatures hovering well below the normal limits in the two neighbouring states.
Chandigarh, the common capital of the two states, experienced a cold night at 5.8 degrees Celsius, two notches below normal level, the MeT Department said in Chandigarh.
In Haryana, Hisar and Karnal recorded identical minimum temperatures of 3.5 degrees Celsius, both down by three notches each.
While Narnaul in Haryana registered a low of 5.2 degrees Celsius.
Amritsar in Punjab also reeled under cold wave. The night temperature in the holy city settled at 3.3 degrees Celsius.
Another Punjab city Ludhiana was also cold at 4.3 degrees Celsius, down three notches while Patiala's night temperature settled at 6.1 degrees Celsius, one degree below normal.