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Delhi records season’s coldest day (Lead)

December 26th, 2009 - 8:25 pm ICT by IANS ( Leave a comment )

New Delhi, Dec 26 (IANS) A day after the capital celebrated a relatively warm Christmas, temperatures dropped to 5.2 degrees Celsius Saturday - the lowest of the season.
“The minimum temperature recorded today (Saturday) was 5.2 degrees Celsius, three degrees below average for this time of the year. There will be not much change tomorrow (Sunday),” an official of the India Meteorological Department (IMD) told IANS.

Earlier the lowest temperature recorded in the capital was 6.1 degrees Celsius Thursday.

The maximum temperature recorded Saturday was one degree above the average, at 23 degree Celsius.

The IMD official added that there was a shallow fog in the morning with a visibility of 800 metres at 8 a.m. No flight delays were however reported.

The official said that there would be dense fog in the coming days.

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