The weather service forecast a cold wave to last for several days, so Delhi and portions of north India awoke to numbing cold. With the arrival of a cold wave, temperatures have dropped throughout Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, and Delhi over the past week. The temperature in Delhi dropped to 5.3 degrees Celsius on Sunday, three degrees below average, making it the city’s coldest Christmas in years. Parts of Rajasthan, Haryana, and Punjab were also heavily enveloped in fog.
As a severe chill swept across northern India, certain portions of the city experienced both cold day and cold wave conditions, with the minimum temperature at the Ridge station falling as low as 3 degrees Celsius. On Christmas Day, the previous occasion the daytime temperature stayed at or below 16 degrees Celsius, was in 2014. When the minimum and maximum temperatures are both at least 4.5 degrees below average, cold day conditions are declared. The minimum temperature falls below 4 degrees Celsius or is more than 45 degrees below average during a cold-wave.
The Indian Metrological Department (Met) predicted that until December 27, there would likely be fog in regions of Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, and Punjab. As the minimum temperature in Kashmir dropped several degrees below the freezing point, the frigid conditions worsened.Kashmir is currently experiencing Chilla-i-Kalan, the 40-day period of the hardest winter, during which a cold wave grabs the area and the temperature drops significantly, causing water bodies and water supply pipes to freeze in numerous areas of the valley.
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