Citys coldest Xmas eve in a decade

Santa brought with him a cold wave this year,and with temperatures in parts of Delhi plummeting to 1 degree Celsius on Saturday,it was the coldest Christmas eve the city had seen in almost a decade.

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Santa brought with him a cold wave this year,and with temperatures in parts of Delhi plummeting to 1 degree Celsius on Saturday,it was the coldest Christmas eve the city had seen in almost a decade.

On Saturday morning,the temperature in Pusa fell to 0.9 degrees Celsius. The mercury slumped below 3 degrees Celsius on Lodhi Road (2.4 degrees Celsius) and Jafarpur (2.5 degrees Celsius) as well. The lowest minimum temperature ever recorded in Delhi was 1.1 degrees Celsius in December 1945.

This is one of the coldest winters Delhi has ever witnessed, said B P Yadav,Director of the India Meteorological Department.

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The average minimum temperature recorded in the city on Saturday was 3.3 degrees Celsius,a degree colder than the predicted minimum of 4 degrees Celsius.

The temperature was expected to remain between 22 and 8 degrees Celsius at this time of the year. Though the minimum temperature was 6 degrees Celsius on Friday,it fell overnight to 3 degrees Celsius. The cold is expected to worsen on Sunday. A minimum of 2 to 3 degrees Celsius has been predicted,and the temperatures are not expected to go above 20 degrees.

Fog was mild on Saturday and no flights were affected. Nearly 30 trains were cancelled and many were delayed by several hours.

The Met department has predicted fog,and visibility below 400 metres for Sunday morning.

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