In Delhi, the average minimum temperature for the month of November is 12.9 degrees Celsius.
New Delhi:
The national capital is set to record the coldest November in at least 10 years, with the average minimum temperature for the month this year hovering around 10 degrees Celsius, according to data from the Indian Meteorological Department.
In Delhi, the average minimum temperature for the month of November is 12.9 degrees Celsius.
From November 1 to November 29, the city registered an average low temperature of 10.3 degrees Celsius, the lowest in at least a decade, according to IMD data.
The average minimum temperature was 15 degrees Celsius last year, 13.4 degrees Celsius in 2018, and 12.8 degrees Celsius in 2017 and 2016.
On Sunday, Delhi registered a low of 7 degrees Celsius. This is the seventh day of this month that the minimum temperature remained below 10 degrees Celsius.
The low temperature is likely to settle around 7 degrees Celsius on Monday as well, according to IMD.
On November 23, Delhi registered a low of 6.3 degrees Celsius, its lowest minimum temperature in the month since November 2003, when the city recorded a low of 6.1 degrees Celsius, according to Kuldeep Srivastava, head of the center IMD regional forecast.
The low temperature this month, except for Nov. 16, has remained 2-3 degrees Celsius below normal in the absence of cloud cover most days, according to IMD officials.
Clouds trap some of the outgoing infrared radiation and radiate it downward, heating the ground.
The month of October was the coldest in 58 years in the national capital.
The average minimum temperature in October this year was 17.2 degrees Celsius, the lowest since 1962, when it was 16.9 degrees Celsius.
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