Winter to stay for some more time in Delhi-NCR region

New Delhi: Winters this time seem to be in no mood to leave Delhi-NCR region as fresh rainfall has extended the cold spell, adding to the woes.

“Due to western disturbance, there are rains and snowfall. The temperature is expected to dip further during the next three days. It will improve only in February,” Kuldeep Shrivastava, senior Meteorologist said.

In Delhi, Safdarjung 8.0 mm and Palam 3.0 mm rainfall was recorded from Tuesday evening to Wednesday morning, tweeted the Meteorological Department.

The Met department also tweeted: “Fairly widespread rainfall observed over Jammu & Kashmir, HP, Uttarakhand, Bihar; scattered over Gangetic West Bengal, Haryana, Chandigarh & Delhi, West UP and isolated over NW Raj, north Chhattisgarh, and NW MP during 0830 hours IST of yesterday to 0530 hours IST of today.”

The minimum temperature recorded in the Safdarjung area on Wednesday morning was 11 degrees Celcius.

The Met department also said: "Under the influence of the Western Disturbance as a cyclonic circulation over North Pakistan and adjoining Jammu and Kashmir between 3.1 and 7.6 km above mean sea level and induced cyclonic circulation over northeast Rajasthan and neighborhood at lower tropospheric levels, fairly widespread to widespread rain or snow very likely to occur over Western Himalayan region during the next 24 hours."

It also predicted light to moderate rain and thunderstorm during the next 24 hours over Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh, Delhi, and Uttar Pradesh. (IANS)

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