Bone chilling cold and dense fog rang in the New Year in the capital today as mercury plummeted to the season's lowest of 4° C. Today, the minimum temperature recorded as three notches below normal and down from the yesterday's minimum of 5.5° C, which was the previous lowest for the season.

The condition improved a bit as the day progressed, but with maximum temperature dipping five degrees below normal to stay at 15.3° C, people were forced to wrap themselves up in more woollens.