New Delhi, Dec 27: As Delhi and the nearby plains awoke to a chilly and gloomy Tuesday morning, visibility plummeted. In Delhi, visibility was 50 metres while it was nil in Bathinda, Punjab.
Jammu’s visibility was 50, Ambala and Hissar in Haryana were at 50 metres, Chandigarh was at 25, Ganganagar in West Rajasthan was at 25, Churu was at 50, and Bareilly in Uttar Pradesh was at 25 metres.
The area is currently experiencing a severe cold wave, with Delhi’s highest temperature plunging to 10 degrees below average. According to the Met Department, the situation will continue for the next three days and get worse after 24 hours. North Indian plains’ Churu in Rajasthan had the lowest minimum temperature ever, at 0.5 degrees Celsius.
Cold northwesterly winds that were tearing through the plains and less sunshine because of the foggy weather were the causes of the dramatic drop in daytime temperatures, according to meteorologists.
The national capital’s coldest location was in the Ridge neighbourhood, when the temperature dipped to 3 degrees Celsius, or 4.9 degrees below normal.
The minimum temperature was 4 degrees Celsius at the Ridge weather station and 4.1 degrees Celsius at the Ayanagar weather station, respectively.
The main meteorological station in Delhi, Safdarjung Observatory, recorded a minimum temperature of 5 degrees Celsius, which is three degrees below average. The Palam observatory reported temperatures that were nine degrees Celsius below average, with a minimum of 6.5 degrees Celsius and a maximum of 12.5 degrees Celsius.
