Several states of North India, including Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Punjab, battled coldwave conditions on Friday morning, which impacted train and flight services.
According to the India Meteorological Department (IMD), very dense fog condition were observed in isolated pockets over Haryana, West UP and East MP. Some areas in Rajasthan, East UP, Bihar, Jammu, West MP, Punjab and Delhi were also blanketed by fog. The severe day cold conditions are likely to persist over the next two days.
The fog conditions also affected visibility in these states, where it was just 50 in Delhi's Palam and Amritsar in Punjab. "Visibility recorded (at 0530 hours IST of today) (in metres): Haryana: Ambala- 25; West Uttar Pradesh: Bareilly-25; East Madhya Pradesh: Sagar-25; Punjab: Amritsar-50, Patiala–200; Delhi: Palam-50; West Rajasthan: Churu-50, Bikaner-200," IMD posted on X.
While IndiGo airlines announced that flight operations to and from Jaipur, Patna, and Amritsar are impacted due to bad weather, several trains scheduled to Hazrat Nizamuddin railway station were delayed due to fog.
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On Thursday, the as maximum temperatures remained in the range of 12-18 degrees Celsius, several notches below the normal for the season.
The IMD attributes it to persistent low cloud cover and the absence of sunlight over the region. A cold day is declared if the maximum temperature dips between 4.5-6.4 degrees below the normal for the season while a severe cold day is declared if temperatures are 6.5 degrees below normal.
However, the minimum and maximum temperatures are likely to rise by 2-4 degrees Sunday onwards under the influence of warm and moist southwesterly winds, the weather office said. Parts of Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, southern Haryana and southern Uttar Pradesh are expected to get light to very light rainfall early next week. The weather department has also forecast dense to very dense fog in some parts of Punjab, Haryana, and north Rajasthan.
