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The Capital woke up to its coldest morning in over three weeks on Monday with temperatures dropping overnight to a low of 5.3C, before foggy conditions made for yet another grey, chilly day with the daytime peak reaching no higher than 17.5C.o)..
The temperatures recorded on Monday came a day after what promised to be a respite from bitterly cold conditions the maximum oscillated between 12.5C- 15C for four consecutive days last week, the daytime peak feeling little different from the nighttime lows, even though the latter was higher than usual. ..
The city was predicted to receive some spells of rain on Monday or Tuesday owing to the effects of an approaching western disturbance, which weather experts said on Sunday would lead to brief relief from the cold conditions --- western disturbance replaces the icy cold winds that blow in from the mountains this time of the year --- before temperatures plummet again towards the end of the week..
. IMD officials said no weather station in Delhi experienced cold day conditions on Monday, a classification that is applied when the maximum is 4.5 notches below normal and the minimum below 10C..
Some stations met this threshold Mungeshpur recorded a maximum of 11.9C and Jafarpur 12C but IMD officials said both were new automatic weather stations and did not have a defined normal, therefore, were not categorised as locations that recorded a cold day..
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