New Delhi:
Delhi and its surrounding areas will witness extreme chilly wave-like situations round Christmas with mild rain anticipated to fall over north India, leading to a drop in day temperatures. The nationwide capital recorded a minimal temperature of 4.9 levels Celsius immediately, practically two notches decrease than 6.8 levels Celsius in Himachal Pradesh’s Shimla.
Friday was Delhi’s coldest day of the season, second solely to Haryana’s Hisar the place mercury dropped to 4.2 levels Celsius, Mahesh Palawat, Vice President at Skymet Climate mentioned. Temperatures are anticipated to say no additional within the subsequent few days after snowfall within the Himalayan states which might convey rain to the plains together with Delhi, he added.
“A western disturbance is anticipated round December 16 and 17 which can result in snowfall within the hills and rains within the plains. Subsequent, on December 23, 24 and 25 heavy snowfall is anticipated to have an effect on temperatures in Punjab, Haryana, Delhi, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat, bringing drizzle and lightweight rainfall. Thick fog will doubtless cowl these states preserving the temperatures low in the course of the day,” the weatherman mentioned.
Western disturbances are cyclonic storms that convey winter rains to north India.
Though mercury is dropping, cold-wave situations are but to hit Delhi as day temperatures nonetheless stay excessive, Mr Palawat mentioned. “Delhi recorded a decrease minimal temperature however Shimla will nonetheless really feel colder as a result of its most temperature in not exceeding 15 levels Celsius. In Delhi, mercury is rising a number of notches in the course of the day, reaching 24 levels Celsius, after the preliminary drop within the morning,” he defined.
This yr will witness a delayed and brief winter, the weatherman mentioned, blaming local weather change and international warming for shrinking winters and in addition presumably reducing brief the spring subsequent yr.
“Normally, western disturbances start round October and the final two months of the yr see heavy snowfall and extreme winter within the north. Now, these disturbances are weakening and snowfall is receding. Yearly, October to February are getting hotter resulting in shrinking winters,” he mentioned.
The weatherman mentioned the chilly is more likely to final from the second week of December to the second week of January. This yr, temperatures rose in March, ushering in summer time proper after February, lowering the spring season. “We are actually shifting from winters to summers, skipping spring,” he mentioned.
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