North India faces an early surge in summer intensity as Delhi records above-normal temperatures while multiple districts in Uttar Pradesh remain on alert for prolonged extreme heat conditions.
Palam improved to 500m visibility in Shallow fog at 0900 hrs. Safdarjung visibility further drops to 0200m in moderate fog at 0910 with calm winds. Flights have been cancelled due to low visibility.
The national capital shivered through another cold morning on Friday as temperatures plunged to 5 degrees Celsius, bringing biting winter conditions, according to the India Meteorological Department (IMD).
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued an orange alert predicting a dense to very dense fog over Delhi-NCR for Monday morning.
Lastly, it was on January 8, 2006, that the city had recorded a minimum of 0.2 degree Celsius.
The mercury dipped to 3.3 degrees Celsius and 3.4 degrees Celsius at Lodhi Road and Ayanagar, respectively, as icy winds from snow-laden Western Himalayas continued to sweep the city, the India Meteorological Department said.
For the plains, the IMD declares a cold wave when the minimum temperature is 10 degrees Celsius or below and is 4.5 degrees less than the normal for two consecutive days.
As per the weather agency, in Delhi, the average minimum temperature for the month of November is 12.9 degrees Celsius.
On Sunday, the national capital had recorded a minimum of 6.9 degrees Celsius and a maximum of 24.2 degrees Celsius.
This year, December had recorded 18 consecutive 'cold days' which is maximum after 17 cold days in December 1997.
