Delhi Minister Atishi announced on Sunday that schools in Delhi will be closed for the next five days, until January 12, for students in Nursery through Class 5. This decision was made due to the current cold weather.
“Schools in Delhi will remain closed for the next 5 days due to the prevailing cold weather conditions, for students from Nursery to Class 5,” Atishi said in a post on X.
The Delhi government, in the previous order, extended the winter break till January 10 in all the government-aided and unaided recognised private schools of the national capital territory (NCT) in light of ‘extreme cold waves and IMD’s yellow alert’. However, hours after the issuance, the Delhi government retracted that order pertaining to the extension of winter vacation in schools within the national capital.
The lack of sunlight resulted in a cold day to severe cold day in Delhi, some areas of East Rajasthan, northwest Rajasthan, Haryana, and in isolated pockets over Punjab. There was a noticeable divergence between the highest temperatures observed at different stations and the typical range for this season. According to the India Meteorological Department (IMD), cold to severe cold conditions are likely to persist over Delhi, Punjab, Haryana, and Rajasthan for the next day or two, with a marked decrease after that.
Maximum temperatures are in the range of 9-12°C over many parts of Punjab and Haryana; and in the range of 13-16 °C over north Rajasthan, Delhi, northwest Madhya Pradesh and some parts of Uttar Pradesh. It is below normal by 4-9°C over these areas.
Minimum temperatures are in the range of 6-15°C over Rajasthan, Punjab, Haryana-Chandigarh-Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, northwest Madhya Pradesh, Bihar and Jharkhand.