Delhi and different components of India could expertise “wintry situations” by the tip of the third week or the beginning of the fourth week of December, stated GP Sharma, the president of Skymet Climate Companies, on Friday, 12 December.
“We anticipate these winters to select up…[in] the third week of December or possibly in direction of the tip of the third week, and begin of the fourth week,” he instructed Mint.
He added that the “typical winter will happen” anytime after 20 or 21 December. The assertion got here amid considerations over delayed winters in Delhi.
When to anticipate chilly waves in Delhi?
“If, in any respect, chilly wave situations can be there, that can be within the fourth week of December. After round 21 December, we will anticipate issues to occur,” Sharma stated.
“That’s the time when the standard winter will happen,” he stated.
Will Delhi see excessive chilly wave situations this 12 months?’
Excessive chilly waves occur usually after mid-January, the professional stated.
Amid reviews suggesting the opportunity of “very harsh” winters this season, Sharma stated one can anticipate harsh spells, as is the case each winter, however there will not be an “outlier”.
He stated there are usually about 5 to 6 days of cold-wave situations in a season, and this 12 months, one might add one other two days or so, and “it could possibly be somewhat extra frequent, and that is all”.
Are delayed winters widespread?
The minimal temperature recorded in Delhi on 11 December 2025 was 8.6 levels Celsius. Nonetheless, the minimal temperature had dropped to 4.9 levels Celsius on the identical day, final 12 months, in accordance with the information recorded by the India Meteorological Division (IMD).
Sharma defined the climate sample and stated that final 12 months, as properly, “typical winters” had began “somewhat late,” after mid-December. “It maintained the tempo thereafter, after which it was good in January and February. There’s a truthful quantity of snowfall and rainfall,” he stated.
Why is there a delay within the onset of Delhi winters?
Sharma stated there have been no lively western disturbances which have brought about any “wintry situations” within the plains or mountains to date.
“We anticipate any western disturbances to come back after 19 December, which is able to affect each mountains and plains,” he stated. Nonetheless, the India Meteorological Division (IMD) says, “A recent feeble Western Disturbance is more likely to affect the Western Himalayan Area from thirteenth December 2025.”
He additionally stated La Niña situations, coupled with regular adjustments within the local weather sample (due to international warming and different components), led to “shifting of seasons past the timeline.”
He talked about that that is the second consecutive 12 months for La Niña.
“Final 12 months additionally, we had it. It was a really temporary and weak occasion. This time additionally, we’re having it. The method is already on. Topical temperatures have already crossed the edge of the La Nina, which implies the method has begun.”
“Like final 12 months, that is additionally going to be very brief and weak,” he stated.
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