The national capital  New Delhi witnseesed to dense fog on New Year's day, reducing the visibility to near zero in many areas of the city.

The India Meteorological Department (IMD) had predicted the minimum temperature at 4 degrees C and the maximum temperature at 19 degrees C for today. The IMD in its daily bulletin issued on December 31 at 9.00 pm, said that cold wave to severe cold wave conditions is likely to persist in isolated places over Delhi during the next two days.

A fresh active Western Disturbance is likely to affect Western Himalayan Region and adjoining plains from January 3 onwards. It is explected to cause light/moderate scattered to fairly widespread rainfall/snowfall over the Western Himalayan region during January 3 and 5.Delhi also recorded eight cold wave days this December.

Delhi's Air Quality Index (AQI) also remained between the 'very poor' to 'severe' category on Friday morning.

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