India, Jan. 3 -- After nearly two months of persistent cold conditions, Pune recorded a sharp rise in minimum temperature on Friday, January 2, offering brief respite from the prolonged chill. According to data from the India Meteorological Department (IMD), the city's minimum temperature climbed to 13.5 degrees Celsius; an increase of nearly three degrees Celsius within 24 hours. The reading was also 2.2 degrees Celsius above the normal minimum temperature for this time of the year. On January 1, Pune had recorded a minimum temperature of 10.9 degrees Celsius.

Meteorologists attribute the increase in minimum temperature to the influence of multiple weather systems active across the country that have disrupted the flow of cold, northerly...