Chandigarh, Jan. 3 -- The city recorded a sharp dip in temperature on Friday, with the maximum dropping to 13degC, 5.2 degrees below normal, which was the lowest day temperature so far this year.

Further, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued an orange alert for dense fog over the next three days.

This comes a day after the city had recorded 13.7 mm rain, which had taken the day temperature to 15degC.

As per the IMD, this was also the second day with cold day conditions this season. Cold day conditions are similar to cold wave conditions but are declared for maximum temperature instead of minimum temperature. For this region, when the minimum temperature is below 10degC and when maximum temperature is between 4.5 to 6.4 ...