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As fog floated crossed cityscapes and unfastened grounds successful bluish states, the wintertime weighed overmuch heavier, pushing mercury down to near-freezing temperatures successful galore areas which experienced the coldest nighttime of the season.
Haryana’s Gurugram and Punjab’s Bathinda recorded a debased of 0.6°C, portion Fatehpur successful Rajasthan’s Sikar territory crossed the freezing constituent threshold to scope minus 0.4°, the section meteorological departments said connected Monday (January 12, 2026).
Near sub-zero temperatures were reported from the NCR region, including successful Faridabad and Rewari, starring to crushed frost. A furniture of crystal covered the windshields of immoderate vehicles parked extracurricular homes successful Gurugram and turned adust writer brittle. The frost was peculiarly disposable successful agrarian areas connected workplace boundaries and conveyance windows.
According to authoritative records, Gurugram recorded a debased of 0°C connected January 11, 1971. However, it cannot beryllium said if Sunday (January 11) night’s somesthesia is an all-time debased for the city, arsenic information for each twelvemonth is not available.
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has warned that terrible acold and dense fog conditions are apt to persist crossed North India successful the coming days.
In the nationalist capital, the minimum somesthesia settled astatine 3.2°C, plunging 4.2 notches beneath the seasonal average, marking the coldest January time successful the metropolis since 2023, arsenic good arsenic the 2nd consecutive time of acold question conditions.
The maximum somesthesia successful Delhi connected Monday (January 12) was recorded astatine 20.6°C, which was 0.7 notches supra normal.
The IMD said the metropolis volition witnesser chiefly wide skies, with mean fog astatine galore places and dense fog astatine isolated locations during the greeting hours. Cold question conditions are expected to prevail astatine a fewer places crossed the city.
The minimum and maximum temperatures are expected to beryllium astir 4° and 20° connected Tuesday (January 13).
In Rajasthan, aggravated acold conditions persisted arsenic temperatures dipped sharply.
Several districts recorded near-freezing nighttime temperatures, disrupting regular beingness and forcing radical to enactment indoors.
According to the upwind office, nighttime temperatures remained beneath 8°C successful galore areas. Isolated pockets of the authorities experienced terrible acold question conditions.
After Fatehpur, Lunkaransar successful Bikaner astatine 0.4° and Churu astatine 1.3°C were the 2nd and 3rd coldest recorded places successful the state.
Other places similar Ganganagar and Karauli recorded a minimum somesthesia of 1.4 and 1.5°C, respectively.
Biting acold affected residents during the nighttime and aboriginal greeting hours.
Shallow fog reduced visibility successful respective regions, portion dense fog successful occidental Rajasthan slowed vehicular postulation during the aboriginal hours. Residents successful respective towns were seen utilizing bonfires to support themselves warm.
The meteorological section has forecast that acold question to terrible acold question conditions volition apt proceed successful parts of the authorities implicit the adjacent day.
The section has advised the public, particularly children and the elderly, to instrumentality indispensable precautions arsenic the acold spell persists.
In Punjab and Haryana, astir places and their communal capital, Chandigarh, person been swept by terrible acold conditions implicit the past respective days, with fog reducing visibility successful galore areas. Chandigarh recorded a minimum somesthesia of 3.3°C.
Gurugram residents said they person not witnessed specified frigid conditions successful years.
“During terrible winters, minimum temperatures bash dip successful Gurugram. However, I bash not callback the mercury dropping adjacent to the sub-zero level successful the past galore years,” said Vinod Kumar, a local.
“Intense acold upwind is apt to proceed successful Punjab and Haryana implicit the adjacent 3 days. After this, the acold upwind conditions volition prevail, but terrible acold is apt to abate,” Chandigarh Meteorological Department Director Surender Paul told PTI implicit the phone.
In Haryana, Narnaul was the second-coldest spot with a minimum somesthesia of 1.2°C.
Devi Ram, a husbandman from Haryana’s Binola village, described the biting acold connected Monday (January 12) morning, noting, “When I went to the fields aboriginal this morning, it felt similar a achromatic expanse had been dispersed implicit the crops. Dew was falling, making my apparel bedewed wrong minutes. The acold was truthful terrible that I had to commencement a bonfire. This frost is beneficial for the wheat crop, but the rootlike crops volition endure losses.”
While the frost benefits the wheat crop, it negatively impacts rootlike crops specified arsenic potatoes, peas, radishes, and mustard. Agricultural idiosyncratic Dr Anand Kumar advised farmers to execute airy irrigation to support mustard and different crops from frost damage.
Meanwhile, Kashmir received immoderate respite from aggravated acold question conditions arsenic minimum temperatures roseate by a mates of degrees, adjacent arsenic they remained beneath the freezing point, officials said.
The sub-zero temperatures and wide skies resulted successful freezing of parts of the Dal Lake and different h2o bodies successful the valley.
Srinagar recorded a minimum somesthesia of minus 2.4°C connected Sunday (January 11) night, up from the erstwhile night’s minus 5.2°C, officials said.
South Kashmir’s Pulwama municipality was the coldest spot successful the vale with a minimum somesthesia of minus 6.5°C.
In Himachal Pradesh, the section meteorological centre predicted a bedewed spell successful the precocious hills from January 16 and issued a yellowish informing for acold question astatine isolated places successful Chamba territory till Wednesday (January 14).
It besides issued a yellowish alert for dense fog astatine isolated places successful 7 retired of the 12 districts successful the authorities -- Una, Bilapsur, Hamirpur, Kangra, Mandi, Solan and Sirmaur — till January 15.
“Light rainfall and snowfall are apt astatine isolated places successful the precocious hills from January 16 to 18 arsenic a caller occidental disturbance is apt to impact the occidental Himalayan portion from January 15,” the Met centre said.
The upwind remained adust successful the past 24 hours, with a terrible acold question successful Berthin (Bilaspur) and Hamirpur and a acold question successful Kangra, Una and Mandi.
There were nary important changes successful the minimum and maximum temperatures, with Kukumseri successful Lahaul-Spiti signaling the coldest nighttime somesthesia astatine minus 9.6°C, it said.
In Uttar Pradesh, acold upwind conditions prevailed crossed ample parts, with time temperatures successful large cities ranging betwixt 13°C and astir 19°C, according to the IMD.
In the authorities superior Lucknow, the somesthesia was recorded astatine 13°C with comparative humidity astatine 72%, portion upwind velocity stood astatine 9.3 km per hour, arsenic per observations astatine 7:30 p.m.
Similar cloudy conditions were shown crossed respective districts connected the IMD upwind map, including Meerut, Bareilly, Pilibhit, Bahraich, Gorakhpur, Prayagraj, Kanpur, Agra, Jhansi and Varanasi.
Among different large cities, Prayagraj recorded a somesthesia of 19.2°C with 68% humidity, portion Bahraich reported 19°C. Bareilly logged 13.8°C and Gorakhpur 18°C. Jhansi recorded 18.8°C and Meerut 15°C during the day.
Wind conditions remained mostly calm successful respective locations, including Bahraich, Bareilly, Gorakhpur, and Meerut, portion airy winds were reported from the westbound oregon southeast successful cities specified arsenic Prayagraj and Jhansi, according to officials.
