Lowest In January Since 2021!
New Delhi: On Monday, 16 January 2023, Delhiites woke up to a chilly morning with the minimum temperature in Delhi dropping to 1.4 degrees Celsius - the lowest so far this season - as another cold wave swept northwest India.
On Sunday, the minimum temperature in the national capital dropped by around nine degrees in just two days. It was 4.7 degrees Celsius yesterday and 10.2 degrees Celsius.
Today's Delhi temperature is the lowest in January since 2021. Safdarjung observatory - the city's base station - had recorded a minimum temperature of 1.1 degree Celsius on January 1, 2021.
A senior meteorologist said the city's minimum temperature may dip to one degree Celsius tomorrow.
Cold wave conditions and foggy weather prevailed over Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh and parts of Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan as well.
In Haryana, Hisar recorded a minimum temperature of 0.8 degrees Celsius, while Punjab's Amritsar saw the temperature plunging to 1.5 degrees Celsius.
The weather has prompted Chandigarh and Uttar Pradesh's Meerut to extend the winter vacation for students of up to Class 8.
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has predicted intense cold wave conditions to continue through the next three days.
Minimum temperatures are expected to dip further by about 2 degrees Celsius in several parts of northwest and central India over the next few days, after which, the temperatures will marginally increase by 3 to 5 degrees Celsius from Thursday.
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