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Dark clouds push mercury up

Photo: Sushil Kumar Verma

Tourists taking a stroll on a cloudy day at Rajpath, on Sunday.

NEW DELHI: Waking up to ominous skies loaded with the threat of rain, Sunday morning bore striking resemblance to the gloomy days that one inevitably associates with Delhi winters -- a truant sun eclipsed all day long by a dark cloud cover.

The rain, however, chose to stay away, only showing up in “traces” across the Capital and the cloud cover, if one disregarded its foreboding presence, went a long way in keeping the mercury well within the comfort zone.

The weatherman put the minimum temperature on Sunday at a tolerable 5 degrees Celsius and the maximum at 19.4 degrees. A partly cloudy sky with a minimum temperature of 8 degrees Celsius has been forecast for Monday along with scattered rainfall.

The new week began on a murky note on Sunday morning with the sun failing to make an appearance. Hidden behind lumps of clouds and sneaking out its head occasionally, for once it refused to warm the bones of cold-beleaguered Delhiites.

“This is what most winters in Delhi are usually like, not particularly sunny with a persistent cloud cover. We have been exceptionally lucky this season due to the absence of fog and mostly sunny days,” said Kinjal Mehta on an afternoon visitor to Khan Market.

With the end to the winter appearing to be interminably postponed, residents of the Capital can only keep their fingers crossed and hope that the chill does not conjure up yet another resurrection in the coming days .

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