Click to play videoNew Delhi: A severe cold wave is sweeping across the entire northern India with temperatures plummeting across the region.
It was bitterly cold in Delhi as the minimum temperature in the capital city reached 2.6 degrees Celsius, five degrees below normal.
The weather office had more bad news - the mercury might sink to below one degree Celsius in the coming days.
The Himalayan region too facing its harshest winters in decades. It’s biting cold in Kashmir but 60-year-old Abdul Razaq still turns up for work everyday. The winter chill may be detering tourists from venturing out, but Razaq – a shikara puller - takes it all in his stride.
"There’s nothing to worry about. These months are generally cold but this time around, it’s been worse,” says Razaq.
It’s the same story in the hills of Himachal. In Shimla, snowfall means the residents don’t have running water.
“In the winters, we have a lot of trouble because pipes freeze up and we have major water problems,” says a tourist Samira Sood.
The cold is travelling from the hills to the plains with even Chandigarh is experiencing a chilling 1.6 degrees even as Jalandhar registered a record low of minus five degrees.
In Jaipur, temperature remained around three degree Celsius. While many warm themselves around bonfires, some had no choice but to brave the cold.
There is hardly any comfort for school kids with the Met Department’s forecast that the cold wave will continue for the next two days
In Delhi, the temperature dipped to 2.6 degrees on Tuesday. But for some shopkeepers it was good news.
“Till about two days back the sale was very poor. But since the temperature has fallen the sale has been very good. I have managed to sell my entire winter stock,” says a shopkeeper.
It’s highly unlikely that Delhittes will get any respite from the winter chill in the next few days. So the best idea would be to stay indoors.
Snowfall and rain in the Himalayan region, especially in Kashmir and Himachal Pradesh, are responsible for the chill in the capital.
Met officials said the cold wave conditions that began Monday would continue at least till the weekend. Last year, Delhi recorded a minimum of six degrees Celsius on Jan 22.
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