Delhi logs season’s lowest temperature at 4.4 degrees Celsius

Men warm up in the cold on Wednesday in Delhi. Pic/AFP

Delhi's minimum temperature on Wednesday morning plunged to 4.4 degrees Celsius - the season's lowest - making the national capital colder than Dharamsala, Nainital and Dehradun.

A dense layer of fog lowered visibility to 200 metres, affecting the movement of road and rail traffic.

At least 19 trains to Delhi were delayed by one-and-a-half to four-and-a-half hours due to the foggy weather, a Railways spokesperson said.

The India Meteorological Department (IMD) shared satellite images that showed a thick layer of fog over the Indo-Gangetic plains and adjoining central and eastern parts of the country.

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The Palam observatory at the Indira Gandhi International Airport logged a visibility level of 200 metres at 5.30 am.

According to the weather office, ‘very dense' fog is when visibility is between 0 and 50 metres, 51 and 200 metres is ‘dense', 201 and 500 metres ‘moderate', and 501 and 1,000 metres ‘shallow'.

With frosty winds from the snow-clad Himalayas barrelling through the plains, the Safdarjung observatory, Delhi's primary weather station, saw the minimum temperature plummet to 4.4 degrees Celsius from 8.5 degrees a day ago.

Delhi's minimum temperature was lower than that of Dharamsala (5.2 degrees), Nainital (6 degrees) and Dehradun (4.5 degrees). The Delhi Ridge weather station near Delhi University recorded a cold wave with a minimum temperature of 3.3 degrees Celsius, the lowest in the capital on Wednesday.

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No. of trains to Delhi delayed by the fog

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