Well the freakish cold wave over southern India has claimed so far seven lives in Andhra Pradesh and it has set a hundred years temperature records at various places which is near to Karnataka. 

On Monday January 16 these freezing winds over the coastal and north Telangana districts has claimed the lives of four aged persons in Guntur district and also two women died one from Bapatla and other from Visakhapatnam.

On Monday the rough atmospheric conditions has broken records inside the Karnataka, Madikeri is a hill station town in Karnataka state has recorded its below temperature of 4.8 degrees Celsius in 132 years.

At 7.7 degrees Celsius, Mysore recorded its coldest day in 120 years and Bangalore saw its coldest day of January in 19 years with minimum temperature touching 12 degrees Celsius. In the plains, Belgaum was the coldest at 7.2 degrees.

B Puttanna, director, in-charge, Bangalore Met department blamed the cold wave in north India for temperatures dropping as much as 7-9 degrees, as compared to last week, in some places in Karnataka.

"The severe cold wave from the north and north-east combined with clear skies, has brought down minimum temperatures across the state," he said.

The weather department has forecast slightly warmer days ahead for Mysore and Bangalore.

In Andhra Pradesh, Adilabad shivered as mercury fell to 4 degrees Celsius. On Saturday, it had plummeted to 3.7 degrees, the lowest in 10 years in the region. Last week, the minimum temperature was as high as 15 degrees celsius.

Meanwhile, weather officials said the cold wave conditions in Andhra Pradesh would continue for the next 24 hours.

They attributed the phenomenon to easterly waves sweeping across central India. While Ramagundam and Medak recorded 7 degrees on Monday, Hyderabad was unusually cold at 10 degrees.

The awful hit for these cold waves were mostly children and the aged persons and because of these cold waves there were severe problems resulting the people who are suffering from asthma.   (TS)