Max temp lowest of season, city shivers

The National Capital Region (NCR) recorded its coldest day of the season on Sunday, with the maximum temperature plummeting and making the daytime feel virtually as frigid as the night conditions brought on by a thick band of fog in the upper reaches of the atmosphere.

- Jasjeev Gandhiok

Delhi's maximum temperature on Sunday was recorded at 15.9°C, which was a mere 4.2°C higher than the minimum. Some trans-Yamuna locations were even chillier, with weather stations at Ghaziabad, Noida and Mayur Vihar having a difference of 2.1, 1.5, and 1.4 degrees between day and night temperatures, respectively.

These figures lead to a near "cold day"-like conditions across Delhi-NCR, a classification when e maximum temperature is 4.5 degrees or more below normal and the minimum is below 10°C. While several stations met the first criteria, the minimum temperature remained above 10°C at all stations, meaning IMD did not officially classify it as a "cold day".

Sunday's daytime maximum was a significant drop from 19.8°C recorded on Friday, the last time the day felt so cold. Unlike that day, when the sun came out meekly for a brief couple of hours, there was virtually no sunshine all day on Sunday.