Light to dense fog is likely to cover Delhi-NCR on Friday as the minimum temperatures will witness a dip in the region. According to the Safdarjung Meteorological Station, the capital experienced a bitterly cold day on Thursday with temperatures dropping by 6 degrees Celsius.
In other parts of North India like Punjab, Haryana-Chandigarh, Uttar Pradesh and East Rajasthan, dense to very dense fog is likely to persist for a few hours during the night and morning till January 6.
Isolated pockets may see these conditions on January 7, followed by dense fog in scattered areas for the next two days.
Cold to very cold conditions occurred at many places over Punjab, Haryana, Delhi, West Rajasthan and West Madhya Pradesh and isolated pockets over East Rajasthan and East Madhya Pradesh on Thursday.
According to the weather office’s forecast for this week, a gradual rise in minimum temperatures of 2-3 degrees Celsius is likely over East India in the first half of the week, while no substantial change in minimum temperatures is expected in the remaining parts of the north. India on most days.
There is a high probability of cold wave in isolated pockets over Punjab, Haryana and North Rajasthan, with moderate probability over Uttar Pradesh, other parts of Rajasthan and North Madhya Pradesh, mainly in the first half of the week.
The minimum temperature recorded in the National Capital Region (NCR) was 7.6 degrees Celsius in Gurgaon; 9.4 degrees Celsius in Faridabad and 8.0 degrees Celsius in Ghaziabad.
A cold wave continued to sweep the northern parts of the country while the Indo-Gangetic plains including Delhi remained engulfed in dense fog for the fifth consecutive day on Friday.
Parts of north India, including Delhi, witnessed cold wave conditions on the second morning of the trot on Friday morning with dense to very dense fog observed over Punjab, Haryana, northwest Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, the IMD said.
For the fourth consecutive day, Punjab’s Bathinda remained shrouded in fog this morning with visibility dropping below 10 meters. However, bitterly cold conditions are likely to continue in the said regions for the next two days, the IMD said.
Around 21 trains were delayed due to fog and low visibility.
According to an IMD official, due to moisture and light winds at lower tropospheric levels over the Indo-Gangetic plains, very dense fog in many/most pockets is very likely over Punjab and Himachal Pradesh during the night/morning hours during the next 48 hours.
A drop in temperature was also recorded in northern Indian states including Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Punjab and Bihar.
“Due to dry northerly/northwesterly winds from the Himalayas over the plains of northwest India, cold wave conditions are very likely in isolated pockets over Punjab, Haryana and north Rajasthan during December 24-26,” the official said.
An intense cold wave gripped Ladakh and Kashmir as the 40-day period of severe winter known as ‘Chillai Kalan’ entered its third day.
In the union territory of J&K, Srinagar was minus 4.8 degrees Celsius, Jammu 6.3 degrees Celsius.
In the Ladakh region, Kargil recorded a minimum temperature of minus 13.1 and Leh minus 13.8.
