Gurgaon: It was a cold start as inhabitants of this city delivered the new year in biting cold.
The city records the lowest minimum temperature of the season at 4.6 degrees Celsius on Saturday – two notches below normal.
Low previously recorded at 4.8 degrees Celsius on December 21.
Temperature during the day has also witnessed down despite the bright sky.
The maximum temperature is completed at 18.8 degrees Celsius – two notches below normal.
On Friday, the minimum temperature remains at 5 degrees Celsius while the maximum resolved at 19.4 degrees Celsius.
The minimum temperature in the city has witnessed falling for the past four days, with a cold wind blew from the mountains dressed in snow.
However, some concessions are seen with other western disorders that have an impact on the region from 4.
“With the cold western wind that applies, the minimum temperature is expected to remain below the normal 24 hours.
After that, there will be a gradual increase in temperature -5 degrees, with a minimum temperature likely to settle above the normal range of January 4 Western disorders, “said an IMD official.
Weeks are expected to remain clear during the day with the possibility of shallow fog to the morning hours.
The minimum and maximum temperature is likely to drift around 5 and 21 degrees Celsius.
With an arranged temperature, city air quality becomes fouter on Saturday.
During the last two days, the air quality index (AQI) lived in a very bad category with aqi readings as a whole at 340, up from 302 Friday.
“Low temperatures cause thermal inversion to trapping pollutants and low wind speeds that apply preventing the dissolution of pollutants.
It is possible to remain in the same range for the next few days,” officially added.
Three of the four monitoring stations, including Gwaldahari, Teri Gram and Vikas Sadan, recorded AQI in a very bad category with their respective reading at 348, 327 and 365.
While it slipped into the severe zone in 406 in sector 51.
Cold start: Gurgaon see the temp lowest temp season at 4.6 ° C
