Clear skies and predominant northwesterly winds noticed Delhi’s minimal temperature dip to 16.5°C on the Safdarjung climate station, which is taken into account consultant of climate within the Capital. Whereas it was nonetheless a level above the conventional for this time of the 12 months, it’s the lowest temperature recorded to date this winter.
The minimal was 17.1°C a day earlier, however it’s unlikely to fall additional, because the India Meteorological Division (IMD) mentioned the wind path was transitioning to hotter southeasterly winds. IMD forecast the minimal temperature to rise marginally this week, oscillating between 17°C and 18°C until the weekend.
“We’re seeing clear skies prevail within the area and that is resulting in hotter days. Nighttime temperature additionally dips when this occurs, which has occurred in the previous few days as we now have had chilly northwesterly winds blowing. There has additionally been a spell of remoted snowfall within the greater reaches, which has helped,” an IMD official mentioned, including {that a} change in wind path to easterly-southeasterly will once more change the situation.
Though the Safdarjung climate station is consultant of Delhi’s climate, different stations had been even cooler. The minimal dipped to 13.3°C at north Delhi’s Ridge station, adopted by a low of 14.5°C on the Ayanagar station in southwest Delhi.
Regardless of the dip, the minimal temperature continues to be above the conventional, with a warmer-than-usual begin to November, on the identical strains as October. IMD on Friday mentioned Delhi recorded its warmest October since 1951. The typical month-to-month most and minimal temperatures this October had been 35.1 and 21.2°C, which had been 36.2°C and 22.3°C respectively in 1951.
IMD knowledge reveals Delhi’s minimal temperature might have dipped to round 14°C by the final week of October, because the lowest minimal in October final 12 months was 14.3°C, 14°C in October 2022, 14°C in October 2021 and 12.5°C in October 2020. By November-end, the minimal normally dips under 10°C, knowledge reveals.
Mahesh Palawat, vp at Skymet meteorology, mentioned that the dearth of western disturbances via October has led to a warmer-than-usual October. “This has meant no snowfall within the mountains and rain within the plains. The wind path within the final 24 hours was predominantly northwesterly and we additionally had clear skies for the previous few days. This has helped minimal temperature drop,” he mentioned.
Delhi, in the meantime, recorded a most temperature of 33.2°C, three levels above the conventional. It was 33.9°C a day earlier. Forecasts present the utmost is prone to oscillate between 32°C and 33°C until the weekend.
