North India Shivers Under Extreme Cold Conditions; Mercury In Delhi Drops To 4 Degrees Celcius

Delhiites woke up to a severely cold day on Friday as the minimum temperature in Delhi dropped to 4 degrees Celcius. The India Meteorological Department had earlier said the national capital likely to record its second-coldest December since 1901 as temperatures are predicted to drop further. Mercury is predicted to drop to 4 degrees Celsius over the weekend, the MeT had said. On Wednesday, the minimum temperature in Delhi was recorded at 5.8 degrees Celsius while the maximum was 13.4 degrees Celsius, seven notches below normal.

Other than Delhi, the whole of North India continues to reel under extremely cold conditions with Rajasthan’s Sikar recording the season’s lowest night temperature at minus 3 degrees Celsius. The Drass belt of Kargil district, meanwhile, was the coldest place in the twin Union Territories of Jammu-Kashmir and Ladakh recording a minimum temperature of minus 30.2 degrees Celsius.