Gurugram records season’s lowest maximum and minimum temperature

Due to the cold winds and dip in temperature, markets and commercial establishments witnessed a lesser number of people as most preferred to remain indoors. A number of shopkeepers and vendors were seen burning wood in small pots to protect themselves from the biting cold.

“The wind is very cold and unless we burn wood, it is very difficult to stay in the open. The customers are also less in the early hours, but they will come out between 2pm to 4pm, when the sun shows up,” said Akhilesh, a vendor in Palam Vihar.

“The cold wave conditions will continue on Tuesday as well and the temperatures are likely to dip further, but the weather will start improving from Wednesday onwards and severe cold conditions will abate. Monday recorded the lowest maximum and minimum temperatures in Gurugram this season,” said Manmohan Singh, director of IMD, Chandigarh.

The IMD’s Chandigarh centre said that the highest maximum temperature in Haryana was recorded at 17.6 degrees Celsius at Narnaul.

The air quality in Gurugram on Monday remained in the ‘poor’ category and the AQI was recorded at 280, according to the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) data at 6.30pm.