North India on Sunday shivered under biting cold as the mercury dipped in several places including Delhi where it settled at five years’ lowest at 2.6 degrees Celsius, with dense fog adding to the woes by disrupting road, rail and air traffic. As many as 55 flights were delayed due to fog at Delhi airport and three international flights were diverted, while more than 80 trains were running late in the region. The national capital recorded the lowest temperature in the past five years with the mercury dipping to 2.6 degrees Celsius, five notches below normal. The maximum stood at 19.2 degrees Celsius, one notch below normal. “This is the lowest temperature recorded in Delhi in the past five years. It could be the lowest in the past decade too but records for the same aren’t immediately available,” a meteorological department official said, adding Delhi’s all time low of 1.1 degrees was recorded on 26 December 1945. Jammu and Kashmir too continued to reel under intense cold with the mercury in the state’s summer capital Srinagar settling at minus 4.7 degrees Celsius and Leh recording the season’s coldest night so far. Leh, in the frontier Ladakh region, recorded a minimum temperature of minus 17.0 degrees Celsius, a further drop from the previous night’s minus 16.4 degrees Celsius.


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