Head of the forecasting team at Skymet Weather, Mahesh Palawat informs that the “cold wave situation in Delhi and adjoining areas of north and northwest India will continue to have temperatures hovering around 0⁰C to 3⁰C for the next four days at the least, because of the direct icy flow of the northerly or northwesterly winds from the hills.”
On January 6th 2013, the temperature in Delhi was recorded as the lowest of the season at 1.9⁰C. Whereas, Hisar recorded -1.1⁰C along with Agra at 0.5⁰C. On Friday, January 4th 2013, Hindon at Uttarpradesh had recorded 0.6⁰C and Delhi recorded 2.7⁰C.
“These ever dropping temperatures are because of the less in number and the weak Western Disturbance in the month of January, which help in raising the temperatures as they approach”, adds Mahesh Palawat. This therefore has led to minimum and maximum temperatures being below normal in Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, north Rajasthan, Haryana and Punjab by 5⁰C to 6⁰C and 6⁰C to 12⁰C respectively. Seeing such low temperatures, weather forecasters also point out at possibility of frost in the above mentioned states.
