The minimum temperature in the national capital dropped to 7.5 degrees Celsius on Friday morning, five levels below normal for this time of year. This was the lowest minimum temperature recorded in November since 2006, officials from the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) said.
On November 29, 2006, the minimum temperature had dropped to 7.3 degrees Celsius, authorities said.
According to IMD scientists, the minimum temperature does not usually drop below 10 degrees Celsius in November. However, during the last week of November 2017, the minimum temperature had dropped to 7.6 degrees Celsius.
In November 2019, the lowest temperature was 11.4 degrees Celsius and in November 2018, it was 10.5 degrees Celsius.
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“It is unusual for the minimum temperature to drop to the single digits in mid-November. Winter is approaching earlier this year. The sharp drop in nighttime temperature is mainly due to a combination of cold winds blowing from the snow-covered western Himalayan region, as well as largely clear skies in Delhi. When there is no cloud cover, the heat trapped in the ground dissipates rapidly, resulting in lower temperatures, ”said Kuldeep Srivastava, director of IMD’s regional weather forecast center.
He added that snowfall in the Himalayas is an annual phenomenon that impacts the temperature throughout northwestern India, but local factors such as the absence of a cloud cover play an important role.
“The minimum temperature is likely to remain around 7-8 degrees Celsius for the next two days,” said Srivastava.
Delhi also saw the coldest October in 58 years with the month’s average low temperature recorded at 17.2 degrees Celsius.
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