Pankaj Jain, Jan. 11 -- Sunday marked one of the coldest January mornings in recent years as New Delhi's Palam area recorded a minimum temperature of 3.0 degrees Celsius. According to available records, this is the second-lowest minimum temperature observed at Palam since 2010. The only colder January day during this period was on January 7, 2013, when the mercury had dipped to 2.6 degrees Celsius.
India Meteorological Department(IMD) data shows that the all-time lowest minimum temperature at Palam was recorded on January 11, 1967, when the temperature had plunged to minus 2.2 degrees Celsius.
Cold wave conditions were recorded across parts of the national capital on Sunday, with several observatories reporting sharply low minimum tempera...