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New Delhi. Severe cold will continue in North India for the next 48 hours. The Meteorological Department has issued a red alert for Delhi, UP, Punjab. The Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) on Sunday said that the northern part of the country is battling cold wave conditions with bone-chilling temperatures and a dark layer of fog and this condition will continue for the next 48 hours. After this, the cold wave condition is likely to subside in North West India, as a new Western Disturbance is going to come on January 10.
According to the Meteorological Department, cold wave conditions will continue in parts of Delhi, Punjab, Haryana Chandigarh, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar for the next two days. Along with this, Red Alert has been issued for Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh, Delhi and Uttar Pradesh and Orange Alert has been issued for Rajasthan and Bihar.
Delhi
In the last 24 hours, Delhi’s minimum temperature dropped by 2.2 degrees Celsius, which was lower than most places in hilly Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand as well as some higher reaches of Jammu and Kashmir. A bone-chilling 1.5 degree Celsius temperature was recorded in some parts of Delhi on Saturday. The minimum temperature reached 1.5 degree Celsius due to severe cold wave at the Ridge Weather Station in central Delhi. In many places in Delhi, the maximum temperature was recorded at least 7 degrees below normal.
Punjab and Haryana
In Haryana and Punjab, the minimum temperature remained below normal at most places and there was a sharp drop in the maximum temperature since last one week. Along with this, Haryana’s Hisar is also in the grip of severe cold, where the minimum temperature was recorded at 1.4 degree Celsius.
Madhya Pradesh
The India Meteorological Department on Thursday issued an ‘Orange Alert’ of moderate to dense fog in six divisions and 15 districts of Madhya Pradesh. The IMD also said that cold wave was experienced in two districts of the state during the day, while ‘severe cold’ was observed in four districts and 12 districts, including capital Bhopal and commercial hub Indore, experienced a cold day.
There was cold wave in Datia and Chhatarpur on Thursday, while it was cold in Dhar, Khandwa and Chhindwara. It was bitterly cold in Bhopal, Indore, Gwalior, Guna, Sagar, Narsinghpur, Seoni, Umaria, Rewa, Ujjain and Ratlam.
Rajasthan
It is freezing cold in almost all parts of Rajasthan and the temperature has gone down significantly for several consecutive days. Churu recorded a minimum temperature of 0.0 degree Celsius and Pilani recorded 0.6 degree Celsius on Friday night.
Haze will prevail, life will be affected
Over 480 trains have been affected due to foggy conditions. Around 335 trains have been delayed, 88 cancelled, 31 diverted and 33 short terminated due to fog, said a railway official. .”
According to the India Meteorological Department (IMD), the visibility level dropped to zero meter in Bathinda and Agra and 25 meter in Patiala, Chandigarh, Hisar, Alwar, Pilani, Ganganagar, Lucknow and Coochbehar and Amritsar and Ludhiana, Ambala, Bhiwani, Visibility was 50 meters in Palam (Delhi), Fursatganj, Varanasi, Meerut, Gaya and Dhubri.
Rohtak in Haryana, Safdarjung, Ridge and Ayanagar in Delhi, Gorakhpur and Bahraich and Bareilly in Uttar Pradesh, Bhagalpur in Bihar, Bagdogra and Jalpaiguri in West Bengal and several places in Assam, Meghalaya and Tripura recorded visibility levels of 200 metres.
The IMD said that this is the fourth consecutive day when the minimum temperature in the national capital included Chamba (8.2 degrees), Dalhousie (8.2 degrees), Dharamshala (6.2 degrees), Shimla (9.5 degrees). degrees), Hamirpur (3.9 degrees), Manali (4.4 degrees), Kangra (7.1 degrees), Solan (3.6 degrees), Dehradun (6 degrees), Mussoorie (9.6 degrees), Nainital (6.2 degrees), Mukteshwar (6.5 degrees) And Tehri (7.6 degrees) was less than most of the hilly areas of Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand.
