The National Capital experienced cold wave conditions on Monday with the minimum temperature being recorded at 1.4 degrees Celsius, 6 degrees below normal, the season’s lowest so far, according to the India Meteorological Department (IMD).
According to the IMD, the Safdarjung Observatory, the primary weather station here, had recorded the minimum temperature.
The weather station at the New Delhi-Lodhi Road, recorded a minimum temperature of 1.6 degrees Celsius, 4 degrees below normal.
The IMD has predicted a fresh spell of dense to very dense fog and cold wave conditions very likely over northwest India till January 18.
“The minimum temperatures are in the range of 7-10 degrees over many parts of Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar; in some parts over East Rajasthan and West Madhya Pradesh. They are in the range of 3-7 degrees, over many parts of West Rajasthan. The lowest minimum temperature of -0.7 degrees observed over Churu (West Rajasthan),” said the IMD.
The IMD has also issued a warning of dense to very dense fog in isolated or some parts during night and morning hours over Punjab, Haryana and Delhi and Uttar Pradesh for the next 5 days.
“Dense fog very likely in isolated pockets during night & morning hours over Bihar during next 5 days; Jammu & Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand during next 4 days and Gangetic West Bengal, Odisha, north Madhya Pradesh, Assam & Meghalaya and Tripura during next 2 days,” the IMD said.
“Cold day conditions are very likely in isolated pockets over Punjab and Haryana-Chandigarh during next 5 days; Uttarakhand and Rajasthan during next 2-3 days and Uttar Pradesh during January 16-18,” said the IMD.
On Saturday, the weather department predicted dense to very dense fog over Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, and Bihar during the next five days.
Due to northwesterly winds from the Himalayas over the plains of northwest India, minimum temperatures are very likely to fall by 2-4 degrees Celsius over the northwest and adjoining central India during the next two days, the IMD predicted.