New Delhi:

People in Delhi and its adjoining areas woke as much as a cold morning with the minimal temperature within the nationwide capital dropping to 1.4 diploma Celsius – the bottom to date this season.

Cold wave situations and foggy climate prevailed over Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh and components of Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan as properly.

The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has predicted intense chilly wave situations to proceed by means of the subsequent three days.

Minimum temperatures are anticipated to dip additional by about 2 levels Celsius in a number of components of northwest and central India over the subsequent few days, after which owing to the western disturbance, the temperatures will marginally improve by 3 to five levels Celsius from Thursday.

Dense fog situations in components of north India introduced visibility down, delaying a number of trains.

Earlier, Delhi noticed an intense chilly wave spell from January 5 to January 9, the second longest within the month in a decade. The metropolis has recorded round 50 hours of dense fog in January to date, the utmost within the month since 2019.