Delhi-NCR weather: The Safdarjung observatory, Delhi's primary weather station, recorded a minimum temperature of 6.3 degrees Celsius against 5.6 degrees on Tuesday and 5 degrees on Monday.
The entire north region has been witnessing extreme cold waves and foggy conditions affecting normal lives.
An image of spaghetti and fork frozen mid-air in sub zero temperatures is going viral on social media. Parts of Northeast USA experienced extreme chill and schools had to be shut down as a result of the extreme weather conditions.
Besides Drass being the coldest in Ladakh, Leh recorded minus 9.6 degrees and Kargil minus 6.4 degrees as their minimum temperatures.
Delhiites woke up to a freezing morning as severe cold waves blew across the national capital. Dense fog engulfed parts of the national capital on morning of February 02.
A thick layer of fog engulfed Punjab as the minimum temperature in Ludhiana is likely to remain at 2 degree Celsius for December 25 and 26. Minimalistic visibility due to dense fog created problem for the people travelling to work.
The temperature in the national capital continued to remain below normal as cold waves persisted in the city.
Amid the chilly winters in northern India, Uttar Pradesh is also experiencing cold waves and dense fog.
National capital's air quality continues to degrade as it slips from 'very poor category' to 'severe category.' According to System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting and Research (SAFAR), city's air quality index stood at 404 in the morning of December 23.
As temperature continues to dip in the national capital, several homeless people were moved to night shelters in Kashmiri Gate area. There are around total of 17 night shelters at Kashmiri Gate.
Air quality remained in the 'very poor' category in the national capital meanwhile cold weather conditions prevail in Delhi.
Fog continued to shroud in Punjab's Ludhiana city on December 17. As per India Meteorological Department (IMD).
Amid winter season, special arrangements have been made for deities at a temple.
Dense fog across the Indo-Gangetic belt, which hinders sun rays from reaching the ground, and the continuous flow of icy northerly winds aggravated cold conditions across the plains of north India that in some places recorded temperatures lower than hill stations, meteorologists said on Monday.
Absence of a strong western disturbance for the past 10 days, which could have disrupted the direction of icy winds coming to the national capital from the hills, resulted in Delhi experiencing its second-coldest December in over a century, weather experts say.
Srinagar recorded the coldest night of the season with temperature dropping down to minus 5.6 degrees. The hill resort of Gulmarg was at minus 9.6 degrees while Pahalgam recorded a night temperature of minus 12 degrees.
According to AccuWeather, parts of North Dakota witnessed a temperature of 75 degrees below zero Fahrenheit (-59 degree Celsius) on Tuesday morning.
Mercury in Drass, the second coldest inhabited place in the world, plunged 31 degrees below freezing point even as Kashmir continued to reel under intense cold wave conditions prevailing over the past two months, MET officials said on Monday.
According to the Met office, cold wave conditions are likely at isolated pockets of the city.
The MeT department has forecast heavy rainfall and snow in Jammu and Kashmir till Monday.
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