Decembrrr: Gurgaon freezing at 0.4ºC, Delhi at 2.6ºC | Delhi Information

NEW DELHI: NCR’s date with excessive climate this December continues. After two weeks of bone-chilling daytime circumstances, evening temperatures fell precipitously within the area on Sunday, with Gurgaon nearly touching freezing level because the minimal dropped to 0.4 levels Celsius and Delhi recording its second lowest December temperature in no less than 15 years at 2.6 levels.
NCR residents can anticipate little aid until Tuesday, when a slight improve in temperatures and a lower in fog depth is predicted.
Gurgaon’s minimal was among the many coldest temperatures recorded within the NCR in current instances. The Millennium Metropolis’s lowest ever temperature is -0.4, recorded on December 5, 1966. Sunday evening was unusually chilly for Delhi as effectively. Climate data accessed by TOI since 1999 confirmed it to be the second lowest December temperature for the interval, after 2.4 levels Celsius recorded on December 30 final 12 months.
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The Met division declared chilly wave in and round Delhi — a double whammy for the area that had earlier reeled beneath ‘chilly day’ circumstances. A chilly wave is said when the minimal falls no less than 5 levels beneath regular, whereas ‘chilly day’ happens when the utmost is equally beneath regular.
The day additionally recorded the season’s most extreme spell of fog, with the IGI Airport closed for round 5 hours from 5.45am to 10.45am attributable to zero visibility. A complete of 93 flights have been affected, together with six flights cancelled, 73 delayed and 17 diverted.

R Okay Jenamani, director in-charge at IGI Met stated that the temperature on all runways was round 2-3 levels on Sunday morning. “Fog set in uniformly and nearly concurrently over the three runways. Throughout this era, the ambiance was completely steady. All of NCR skilled low temperatures and dense fog until about 11am,” he stated.
Palam recorded a most and minimal temperature of 17.8 levels Celsius and three.5 levels Celsius respectively.
The Met workplace stated that the chilly was in all probability a results of native cooling. “The sky had been comparatively clear the earlier afternoon due to which warmth escaped and led to a pointy drop in evening temperature, a phenomenon often called radiational cooling,” an official stated.
Extreme fog circumstances are predicted from Sunday evening to Monday morning. A lower in depth is anticipated from Tuesday morning or evening beneath the influence of a powerful induced circulation over northwest India.
A Met official stated a low stress space has shaped over Sri Lanka and Tamil Nadu coast due to which hotter easterly winds are anticipated within the area on the morning of December 31, which is able to then work together with the fog and should scale back it additional. A contemporary western disturbance can also be anticipated to have an effect on northwest India from December 30.
“Fog is anticipated at many locations over Punjab, Haryana, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and north Rajasthan until Tuesday. Floor frost might happen in remoted pockets of Punjab, Haryana and north Rajasthan until Tuesday. Chilly wave circumstances may additionally happen over elements of Haryana and Uttar Pradesh. There will probably be no vital change in minimal temperatures until Monday after which a slight improve is feasible. The chilly wave will abate from Tuesday,” stated a Met official.
The division has predicted gentle to average rain and snow at one or two locations over Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand on January 3. Remoted to scattered rainfall and thundershowers will happen over central India and adjoining elements of east and northwest India, together with Delhi round this time.