NEW DELHI: As the country welcomed the New Year with open arms, the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) predicted showers, complete with thunderstorms and hail, for northern India from January 3-5, even as Delhi recorded its lowest level of 3.3 degrees Celsius on December 31.
The meteorological department has forecast cold waves to severe cold wave conditions in Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and West Madhya Pradesh for the next 24 hours on Friday.
New Year revelers should be aware that there will be dense to very dense fog with visibility of less than 50 meters in some parts of northern India until January 1. A cold snap occurs on the plains when the minimum temperature is 10 degrees Celsius or less or is 4.5 notches lower than normal for the season for two consecutive days. Delhi was coldest in the Lodhi Road area at 3.1, while Haryana was coldest in Hisar.
Navdeep Dahiya, founder of Live Weather of India, commented on the general weather in North India: “There is an incredible cold snap in North India.” Hisar in Haryana recorded a low temperature of minus 1.2 degrees Celsius on Thursday, the coldest temperature of the decade. for December. In 2018, minus 1 degree Celsius was recorded on December 26. All the lowest times for December are minus 1.5 degrees Celsius in 1973. “
In Delhi, heavy fog lowered visibility to just 50 meters, as the minimum temperature in the city dropped to 3.3 degrees Celsius on Thursday. “Rains accompanied by thunderstorms or hailstorms over Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh, Delhi, northern Rajasthan, West Uttar Pradesh and northwestern Madhya Pradesh from January 3 to 5, with maximum intensity on January 4,” IMD said in your daily newsletter.
Scattered or fairly widespread precipitation is due to the influence of the interaction between the western disturbance and the lower-level easterly winds from the Bay of Bengal. A new western disturbance is likely to affect the western Himalayas and the adjacent plain from January 3. There will be no significant change in minimum temperatures in most of northwestern and central India for the next 24 hours, but an increase of three to five degrees Celsius thereafter for the next two days.
“At 3.3 degrees Celsius, Delhi recorded the lowest minimum temperature of the season,” said Mahesh Palawat of the private weather forecasting agency Skymet Weather. The Safdarjung Observatory, which provides representative data for the city, recorded a low of 3.3 degrees Celsius.
The Lodhi Road Weather Station registered a low of 3.1 degrees Celsius. On December 20, Delhi registered a low of 3.4 degrees Celsius. Palawat, however, said the temperature will rise by January 2 and the cold snap will subside in northwestern India.
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