Delhi gets first sign of winter as nights cooler, temperature may dip below 20°C this week

There is a nip within the air in Delhi and the northern plains with minimal temperatures falling — the primary indicators of the onset of winter. The minimal temperature in Delhi on October 2 was 20 diploma C, 2 diploma C beneath regular and a fall of two to three levels from September 27-28 when the minimal temperature was 23.2 diploma C and 22.2 diploma C.

The Regional Meteorological Centre (RMC), Delhi, mentioned there might be an extra fall of 1 to 2 diploma C in minimal temperatures over the approaching week. Maximum temperatures, nevertheless, remained reasonable at 35.6 diploma C on October 1 and 36.5 diploma C on September 30.

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Last yr, Delhi recorded minimal temperature of 19.eight diploma C on October 4. “We are not expecting any change immediately in the maximum temperature. There are clear skies now after the monsoon has withdrawn, so day temperatures are high but the heat is radiated back so the nights are cooler. The wind direction has changed from easterly during monsoon to north-westerly so the winds are blowing from the colder regions such as J&K and Himachal Pradesh. If there is any rain or snow there due to a western disturbance, it will get colder,” mentioned Kuldeep Shrivastava, head, regional climate forecasting centre.

IMD’s forecast for subsequent seven days exhibits minimal temperature shall be round 19 diploma C. “As per our forecast minimum temperatures will drop by a degree or so in the next week,” mentioned Ok Sathi Devi, head of the nationwide climate forecasting centre.

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RMC knowledge exhibits that minimal temperatures are additionally decrease than regular in different components of northwest India — Kanpur in Uttar Pradesh, Karnal in Haryana, and Chamba and Bilaspur in Himachal Pradesh.

Though the submit monsoon season has began after IMD declared finish of the monsoon on September 30, widespread heavy rain is anticipated over Odisha, Jharkhand, and Gangetic West Bengal in the course of the subsequent 4 to 5 days.