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The effect of the cold wave has increased in Delhi NCR and other parts of north India after two days of bright and soothing sunshine. On Sunday, the temperature fell below the minimum gripping the national capital under acute cold weather and extreme fog.

Things don’t seem to be changing much on Monday, and a thick layer of fog has shrouded Delhi. Visuals shared by news agency ANI from Delhi's Kartavya Path show people jogging on the road amid low visibility due to dense fog.

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Besides, train services have also been badly impacted due to bad weather conditions.

On Saturday, the maximum temperature in Delhi was recorded at 24 degrees Celsius, which is 2 degrees above the normal and maximum for this month. On Sunday, the maximum temperature was recorded as 3 degrees below the normal.

The weather department has predicted that there will be moderate fog on Monday morning. The sky will be clear during the day. The maximum and minimum temperatures can be 22 and seven degrees respectively. Similar weather conditions are expected on Tuesday as well. However, light rains are expected on Wednesday and Thursday. Due to this, there may be a partial drop in day temperature. 

"Fog conditions observed (at 0530 hours IST of today): Dense to very Dense fog over some parts of Uttar Pradesh; in isolated pockets of Bihar; Moderate fog in isolated pockets of Punjab, Delhi, Madhya Pradesh; Shallow fog in isolated pockets of Rajasthan, Odisha and Andhra Pradesh," IMD said in a post on X (formerly Twitter).

There has been no respite from the cold in Haryana, Punjab and western Uttar Pradesh. The minimum temperature in all the three areas was below the normal.

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A Kashmir-like situation was witnessed in the hill station, Ooty, in the Nilgiri district of Tamil Nadu as the minimum temperature dropped to 1.3 degrees Celsius.