Night Temp Plummets To 5°C In Odisha; Mercury Hovers Around 13°C In Bhubaneswar & Cuttack

Bhubaneswar: The coldwave sweeping Odisha intensified further with the mercury plummeting to 5 degree Celsius at G Udayagiri in Kandhamal district followed by Similiguda in Koraput at 7 degree Celsius, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) informed on Monday.

The night temperature dipped to 10 degree Celsius or below in at least 10 places i

n the state, it said.

In north and north central districts, the night temperature dropped by 3 to 4 degree Celsius.

While state capital Bhubaneswar recorded a minimum temperature of 13 degree Celsius, the mercury dropped to 13.2 degree Celsius in the millennium city of Cuttack, the IMD data said.

Ten places recorded a minimum temperature below or at 10 degree Celsius:

1. G Udaygiri: 5
2. Similiguda: 7
3. Keonjhar: 7.6
4. Chiplima: 7.8
5. Phulbani: 8
6. Jharsuguda: 8.2
7. Sundergarh: 8.5
8. Koraput: 9
9. Daringbadi: 9
10. Angul: 10

While dense fog was experienced in Phulbani, shallow and moderate fog prevailed in Bhawanipatna and Cuttack.