‘Fog hole’ brings sun out but cold persists
Hindustan TimesParts of the national capital recorded ‘cold day’ conditions on Sunday, despite a ‘fog hole’ over the city allowing in some sunlight and pushing up the maximum temperature from the season’s lowest, recorded a day ago. While Safdarjung, Delhi’s base station, recorded a maximum temperature of 17.2 degrees Celsius on Sunday, three notches below normal, some parts of the city still recorded ‘cold day’ conditions, with the mercury increasing only marginally, to 12.8°C, at outer Delhi’s Narela. Though officially Delhi witnessed ‘cold day’ only on Friday and Saturday, parts of the Capital recorded such conditions for the fourth consecutive day on Sunday. Delhi’s air quality meanwhile remained in the ‘poor’ category, with an air quality index of 264 recorded as per Central Pollution Control Board’s 4pm bulletin – a slight increase from Saturday’s reading of 258.