COURTESY HT NOV 20

Min temperature dips to 9.4 degrees
HT Correspondent

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New Delhi : The minimum temperature in the national Capital dropped below 10 degrees Celsius for the first time this season, falling to 9.4°C on Thursday, three notches below the normal for this time of the year and an unusual occurrence for this time of the year, weather scientists said.

“Normally, minimum temperatures don’t drop under 10 degree C in November. In recent years, in 2017, during the last week of November, the minimum temperature had dipped to 7.6 degree C. It’s unusual for minimum temperatures to drop to single digit in mid November. Winter is setting in early this year,” said Kuldeep Shrivastava, head, regional weather forecasting centre.

In 2019 the lowest November temperature was 11.4 degree C and in 2018 it was 10.5 degree C.

The maximum temperature on Thursday stood at 25.6°C, two degrees below normal.

The India Meteorological Department (IMD) had on Monday forecast that minimum temperatures would fall under the 10°C mark this week because of cold winds blowing in from the direction of the snow-clad western Himalayas. The weather forecaster also expects mercury levels to dip further from Sunday. “We are seeing a dip in minimum temperatures across northwest India and expect temperatures to dip further from November 22, when a western disturbance is likely to affect the western Himalayan region,” Srivastava added.