IMD Alert: Severe cold wave in these states in next 3 days, forecast of drop in temperature

The beginning of the new year brought back cold wave conditions over the northwestern part of India. The weather agency has also predicted that dense fog will prevail in Uttarakhand, Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh for the next three days.

Fog is common at this time of year due to light winds and high humidity near the surface in the Indo-Gangetic plains. In extremely cold conditions, moisture condenses and forms small liquid droplets that hang in the air.

The IMD said that in the last 24 hours, the minimum temperature remained in the range of 2-6 degrees Celsius in many parts of Punjab, Haryana, Delhi, North Rajasthan and West Uttar Pradesh.

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The India Meteorological Department said that due to northwesterly winds coming from the Himalayas over the plains of northwest India, minimum temperatures will drop by 2-4 degrees Celsius over northwest and adjoining central India during the next two days. likely to come.

There is a possibility of severe cold wave conditions in the northern parts of Rajasthan till Tuesday.

Dense fog will also occur over Himachal Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Sub Himalayan West Bengal, Assam and Tripura during next 2-3 days.

Dense fog will remain in Bihar during the next 4 days.

IMD said that cold day conditions are likely to prevail over Uttarakhand, Punjab, Haryana and Chandigarh on January 1 and Uttar Pradesh and West Madhya Pradesh on January 1-2.

-IMD also predicted cold wave conditions in isolated pockets over Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand during January 1-4

The weather agency said that similar conditions would prevail over Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh and Delhi during January 1-5 and West Uttar Pradesh on January 2 and 3.