Delhites shiver as capital gets colder than Dharamshala and Nainital

Cold winter morning, in New Delhi, Tuesday. Pic/PTI

The national capital shivered on a severe cold day on Tuesday as its minimum temperature fell below that of Dehradun, Dharamshala and Nainital.

With a high windchill factor - a measure of the rate of heat loss from skin that is exposed to the air - in play, the weather office predicted a cold day.

The Safdarjung observatory, Delhi's primary weather station, logged a minimum temperature of 5.6 degrees Celsius - a notch below normal. The maximum temperature was predicted to settle around 16 degrees Celsius. The minimum temperature in Dehradun was recorded at 7 degrees Celsius, Dharamsala at 6.2 degrees Celsius and Nainital at 7.2 degrees Celsius. Meteorologists attributed the sharp drop in day temperatures to frigid north westerly winds barrelling through the plains and reduced sunshine due to foggy weather.

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Mahesh Palawat, vice president (meteorology and climate change) at Skymet Weather, said a western disturbance led to a fresh spell of snowfall in the mountains on December 25-26 and cold northwesterly winds were sweeping through the plains after its retreat.

The sun was blotted out in large swathes of northwest India as dense to very dense fog prevailed in some parts of the NCR, Haryana, Punjab, west Uttar Pradesh and north Rajasthan.

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