The national capital witnessed another cold morning on Wednesday, with the minimum temperature settling at 10.6 degrees Celsius

New Delhi: The national capital witnessed another cold morning on Wednesday, with the minimum temperature settling at 10.6 degrees Celsius, four notches below normal.

The India Meteorological Department (IMD) said the temperature met the criteria for cold wave on Tuesday but not Wednesday.

Delhi cold

For the plains, the IMD declares a cold wave when the minimum temperature is 10 degrees Celsius or below and is 4.5 notches less than normal for two consecutive days.

On Tuesday, the minimum temperature had dropped to 10 degrees Celsius, the lowest in the season so far. It was less than that of Dalhousie (10.9 degrees Celsius), Dharamshala (10.6) and Mandi (10.2) in Himachal Pradesh and Mussoorie (10.4) in Uttarakhand.

Kuldeep Srivastava, the head of the regional forecasting center of IMD, said a similar situation is expected to prevail for another four to five days.

Cold morning in Delhi, minimum temps settles at 5.5 deg Celsius

He said the month of November this year is expected to be the coldest in the last four to five years.

The senior IMD scientist said the minimum temperature is expected to be recorded in single digits in the next three to four days.