Delhi’s registers coldest day this year with 3.2 degree minimum
In the city’s coldest day this year, New Delhi today recorded its lowest temperature of 3.1 degrees Celcius this season, bringing its minimum temperature five notches below normal, as the cold wave sweeping across North India hit the national capital with a force.
A “severe” cold wave has besieged Delhi, Punjab, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, as well as parts of Telangana and Rajasthan this winter. Rajasthan’s city of Churu recorded a temperature of minus 0.5 degrees Celcius, while Srinagar, in Kashmir, has reported a subzero minimum of minus 5.8 degrees Celcius.
The minimum temperature of 3.1 degrees Celcius in Delhi was recorded at Lodhi Road’s Safdarjung observatory, considered the official marker for the capital, said the Regional Meteorological Centre, Delhi. Meanwhile, the automatic weather station at Jaffarpur village in west Delhi recorded an even lower temperature of 2.9 degrees Celsius, a reading six notches below normal.