25807 The bone-chilling cold broke a 47-year-old record in Hisar as the city reported a minimum temperature of -1.2 degree Celsius. Tribune photo. Deepender Deswal Hisar, December 31 The bone-chilling cold broke a 47-year-old record in Hisar as the city reported a minimum temperature of -1.2 degree Celsius, eight degrees below normal. The Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) stated that it was the coldest day of December in Hisar since 1973 when the mercury was recorded -1.5. Shimla was much warmer at 3 degree Celsius. Residents woke up to ice-cold weather coupled with dense fog which disturbed the normal life in the region. Hisar was the coldest place in Haryana and Punjab even though mercury also went down to the sub-zero point of -0.5 degree Celsius in Haryana's Narnaul and zero degree Celsius in Punjab's Bhatinda. Hisar’s maximum temperature too was 14.4 degree Celsius, five notches below normal.