Thursday, December 15, 2011

Temperature in Delhi plummets, coldest morning this season












New Delhi:  Delhiites woke up to the chilliest morning of this winter today with the mercury slipping below seven degree Celsius.

The minimum temperature was recorded at 6.9 degree Celsius, one degree below normal for this time of the year, as against yesterday's 7.1 degrees, the MeT Department said.

The maximum was 24.6 degree Celsius, one degree above normal, yesterday.

In December last year, the minimum had come down to 5.2 degree Celsius on the 22nd of the month.

In the past decade, the lowest minimum for the month was recorded on December 12, 2005 when the mercury recorded 3.3 degree Celsius while the highest maximum was 28.4 degrees on December 15, 2003.

The record for the lowest minimum for the month of December is 1.1 degree Celsius recorded on 26th of the month in 1945 and the highest maximum was 29.3 degrees on third of the month in 1987.

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