Nowgaon (Chhatarpur)

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Extreme cold

2023

Jan 9

MP town in the plains freezes at -1/ TNN The Times of India / Jan 10, 2023

BHOPAL: Residents of Nowgaon, a small town in Chhatarpur district of , woke up to ice layers on their cars and gardens on Saturday morning as the temperature dropped to minus-1 degree Celsius.

Experts are puzzled by the freezing, sub-zero temperatures in a town in the heart of India and at an elevation of just 233 metres.

The surrounding region – Nowgaon is close to the UP border – is nowhere near as cold, deepening the mystery.

The town of less than a lakh population froze in its tracks as ice and hard frost – which townsfolk mistook for snow – covered everything. Schools have been closed. People were seen scooping up ‘snow’ off park benches, cars and grass, and playing with it as if they were in Manali.

This, barely 68km from Khajuraho, and in a region where summers are usually 48-degrees-plus. Peak summer is a searing 49 degrees in Nowgaon.

“We were shivering, there was ice on the grass outside our house. I don’t remember seeing such conditions ever in my life,” said Jagdish Sahu, who has seen 80 winters.

Nowgaon’s extremes of temperature – the hottest and coldest town in the state. Presence of graphite in the area is considered as one of the reasons behind the “exceptional extremes”. Ved Prakash Singh, a scientist at Bhopal centre of India