Winters have arrived in Delhi-NCR in full swing, with mercury dropping by few notches every day now. In fact, Delhi continued to record morning temperature around 9°C for the second consecutive day today.
On Tuesday, Palam Observatory recorded minimum temperature of 9.7°C, which is the season’s lowest night temperature. In fact, this was three degrees below the normal average temperature of 13.6°C.
Meanwhile, Safdarjung Observatory observed minimum temperature at 10.2°C, which was also two degrees below normal. Although, it has witnessed slight increase in minimums today but the station had recorded 9.4°C on Monday.
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Not only minimums but day maximums are also settling below the average by 2-3 degrees.
According to Skymet Weather, these cold northerly winds will continue for another 48 hours till November 23. Therefore, we can expect further fall both the morning and night temperatures.
Both the observatories in Delhi had been recording mercury around 15°C, which had seen a significant drop of five degrees on November 20. The reason for this sudden drop can be attributed to flow of icy cold northerly and northwesterly winds from the snow clad Himalayas.
Till November 19, a Western Disturbance was persisting over Jammu and Kashmir, which was obstructing the flow these cold winds. However, with the system moving away, these winds have once again started blowing across northwestern plains including Delhi-NCR.
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