Winters are set to intensify in northern India as the India Meteorological Department says the region will witness further drop in mercury by two to three degrees in the coming days. The weather department also said that there will be an increase in fog in Delhi-NCR, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, and Punjab from tomorrow, November 28.
"The (weather) in the national capital Delhi is currently cloudy and this will continue for the next 12-18 hours,” IMD Senior Scientist RK Jenamani told news agency ANI.
“The weather will be clear from tomorrow and the temperature is expected to fall by 2 to 3 degrees at night. Fog will increase in Delhi-NCR, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and Punjab from November 28,” he added.
On Sunday, the weather department predicted a generally cloudy sky with the possibility of very light rain or drizzle in Delhi from Sunday night.
The national capital recorded a maximum temperature of 26.4 degrees Celsius on Sunday and a minimum temperature of 10.4 degrees Celsius, a notch below the season's average.
There could be shallow to moderate fog after the rain, said the IMD.
The city recorded a relative humidity of 78 per cent on Sunday evening.
Up in the hills, the minimum temperature dropped below the freezing point at most places in Kashmir, officials said on Saturday, according to a PTI report.
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Except for Kokernag in south Kashmir’s Anantnag district, all other weather stations in the valley experienced sub-zero night temperatures, the MeT officials said.
As per the PTI report, the minimum temperature in Jammu and Kashmir summer capital, Srinagar was recorded at minus 1 degree Celsius on Friday night – down from 0.9 degree Celsius the previous night.
The minimum temperature on Friday night was one degree below the normal for this part of the season, they added.