Fog in Delhi, cold wave across north India
Heavy fog covered Delhi on Monday, and a cold wave swept through large parts of north India, causing the people to shiver, the weather office said. “The skies have remained cloudless throughout the day. It is due to a cover of a highly humid fog that one may experience lesser sunshine than normal,” said an official of the India Meteorological Department.
Though northern parts of the country are facing the onslaught of a harsh winter already, this did not have a direct bearing on the slight drop in temperatures here, he said. Srinagar registered the season’s coldest day on Monday with minimum temperature at minus 3.4º Celsius. The minimum temperature in Ladakh was minus 12.8º Celsius. Delhi’s wintry, misty day dawned with the minimum temperature at 7.9º Celsius, falling a degree below the average for this time of the season, and maximum humidity at 95 per cent. The maximum temperature was recorded at 23.9º Celsius. R.K. Pandita, assistant director at the local weather office said the weather would remain cold and dry and temperature would slide further till Wedne-sday. “It is not unusual for the temperatures to fall below freezing point at the beginning of December. But it is because of the extra cautions local take that there have never been any deaths due to the chilly weather,” he added.
—IANS
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