Dynamite News Weather Alert: Icy wave chills National Capital, North India; Delhi ridge area records minus 0.3°C
There are no signs of the prevailing cold wave slackening its hold on the national capital and vast swathes of North India. Read further on Dynamite News:
New Delhi: There was no respite for the national capital from bone-chilling cold, as the city woke up to another icy morning on Tuesday, with the minimum temperature in the Ridge area of the national capital dropping below the freezing point, at -0.3°C.
There were no signs of the prevailing cold wave slackening its hold on the national capital and vast swathes of North India, as Delhi's Safdarjung observatory recorded a minimum temperature of 1.4°C. The Palam observatory recorded the mercury at 1.2°C while Ayanagar logged 1.0°C at 8.30 am.
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With the mercury taking a downward shift, locals were pictured sitting around bonfires as the biting cold chilled them to the bone.
Meanwhile, in keeping with the weather pattern of the last few days, dense fog shrouded the national capital and elsewhere in its neighbourhood on Tuesday, with the visibility reduced significantly in isolated pockets of Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Rajasthan, and Madhya Pradesh, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) informed.
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