India, Jan. 12 -- Delhi shivered through Sunday as isolated pockets recorded "coldwave" conditions with the minimum temperature plummeting to as low as 2.9 degrees Celsius (degC) at the Aya Nagar weather station. Safdarjung, representative of Delhi's weather, recorded a minimum of 4.8degC - three notches below normal and up from 4.2degC on Saturday.

Other stations in the city were colder, with 3degC logged at Palam and 3.7degC at Ridge. According to the India Meteorological Department (IMD), Sunday was the coldest January morning in Palam in the last 13 years, since the station recorded 2.6degC on January 7, 2013.

As per forecast, "coldwave" will continue in the national Capital till Wednesday. IMD has issued an orange alert for "coldwa...