Overview
- Mumbai’s Santacruz station recorded 16.2°C on Wednesday, roughly 5°C below normal and the city’s lowest November minimum in years, as Colaba stayed milder at 21.6°C.
- Pune registered the season’s first single‑digit minimum at 9.4°C on Tuesday, with several district stations between 6°C and 9°C and local air quality slipping into the poor range at multiple sites.
- IMD reported minimums 2–6°C below normal across wide areas, with Delhi posting its earliest single‑digit lows in 11 years and fog advisories in place for the coming days.
- Yellow cold‑wave alerts are active for parts of Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and Telangana, where multiple districts saw sub‑10°C readings and isolated cold‑wave conditions.
- Forecasts indicate the chill persists briefly before minimums rise by about 2–3°C in some regions over 4–5 days, with rain likely in Tamil Nadu and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands and fog over parts of the east.