Delhi weather today, Jan. 15 -- The India Meteorological Department (IMD) issued a nowcast warning for "very dense fog," valid till 9:03 AM. At the same time, biting cold gripped the national capital as Lodhi Road recorded minimum temperature as low as 3.6 degrees Celsius on Wednesday. Even in Gurugram, the mercury plunged to 3.5 degrees Celsius. The weather office warned against cold wave conditions on Thursday.

The red alert for fog warns against very low visibility and states, "Very Dense Fog is very likely to occur at many places over Central, New Delhi, North, North West, South, South West West in next 3 hours."

Predicting dense fog conditions over northwest India in the coming days, IMD issued cold wave alert for Delhi's neighbour...