New Delhi: Maximum temperature at Delhi’s main weather station, Safdarjung, dropped below 15 degrees Celsius for the first time in two years when the capital on Saturday experienced the coldest day conditions since January 2020, with the sun behind the fog layer for the second day and ice wind Cool Delhies to the bone.
Safdarjung, where the maximum of five notches below normal at 14.8 degrees Celsius, see the condition of “cold day” for the second day.
However, several parts of the city suffered “severe cold days” with a maximum of 6.5 degrees or more under normal.
These include Narella (10.7 degrees C), Jafarpur (10.9), Palam (12.5), Ridge (12.7) and Ayanagar (13.6).
Orange warnings for cold conditions have been issued for Sundays.
The last time the maximum has fallen below 15 degrees C in Safdarjung on January 9, 2020 (14.5 degrees) during the winter breaking the 2019-20 record.
Similar to Friday, there are moderate fog layers or low clouds on Saturday during the day on top of Delhi-NCR, Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan North.
It prevents sunlight from reaching the surface.
Light winds also blew in the region.
This condition causes severe cold days or a cold day above Delhi, “said an official meeting.
This is the third” cold day “this season after Friday and December 18.
According to IMD,” cold day “was declared when the temperature was minimum.
under 10 degrees Celsius and the maximum departure of normal temperature is 4.5 degrees or above.
“Severe cold day” is classified when the maximum temperature is below 6.5 degrees or higher.
According to IMD, the solid fog is formed at Palam 1.30 in the morning and 3.30 in the morning.
Moderate fog layers are formed above the city when the visibility remains at 400m all day in Safdarjung.
However, its visibility is up to 1,000 meters at the Palam until 10:30 a.m.
and up to 1200 meters until late afternoon..
The meeting department has expected moderate fog on the day Sunday morning and warning ‘orange’ there when cold day conditions are likely to be in many places.
Moderate fog along with cold day conditions in places Isolated is also possible on Monday.
“The same pattern of death og or low clouds above Delhi and other countries in the Northwest India, cutting the sun, it is likely to cause cold day conditions in Delhi on January 16 or 17.
However, because Western disruption is likely to have an impact on the plains , some improvements are expected from the afternoon of January 17, “said RK Jenamani, a senior scientist at the IMD.
IMD forecasts say the maximum and minimum temperature tends to stay at 14 and 6 degrees Celsius, in the city on Sunday.
The minimum on Saturday is 6.1 degrees C in Safdarjung, notch below normal.
There is a possibility of very light rain or drizzling above the city on January 21 under the influence of Western disorders.
Delhi’s air quality, meanwhile, upgraded from the ‘very poor’ category on Friday for the ‘poor’ category on Saturday.
Overall the air quality index (AQI) was recorded at 258 on Saturday compared to 348 on Friday.