Overview
- Kashmir recorded severe cold with Shopian at −6.4°C and Srinagar at about −4.1°C, as forecasters kept conditions largely dry with a chance of light snow over higher reaches on December 8.
- Delhi’s minimum ticked up to 6.8°C from 5.6°C a day earlier, yet air quality stayed in the very poor range around 330–335, with stronger winds likely to offer only limited relief over the next couple of days.
- The IMD warned of cold-wave conditions in isolated pockets of Punjab and Haryana (Dec 7, 10–11), West Madhya Pradesh and Vidarbha (Dec 7–8), Chhattisgarh (Dec 7), and Jharkhand and Odisha (Dec 7), alongside guidance for a short rise in night temperatures followed by a midweek fall.
- Kolkata logged its coldest morning of the season at 14.5°C, about 2.1°C below normal, while Jharkhand issued a yellow cold-wave alert for 11 districts as Gumla hit 3°C with a slight further dip expected before a modest rebound.
- Intense chill persisted across the northern plains, with Faridkot in Punjab at 2.5°C, parts of Haryana below normal, Rajasthan’s Fatehpur at 2.3°C with reports of crop frost, and several Madhya Pradesh districts under cold-wave or severe cold-wave conditions.