Delhi's Chilling Spell Persists; North India Braces for Fog, Severe Cold & Rain Tomorrow

With no relief in sight from the freezing weather, severe cold conditions prevailed in several areas in northern and central India, on Sunday morning, with temperatures in the below-normal range. The ‘cold day’ to ‘severe cold day’ conditions are likely to continue over Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh, Delhi and Rajasthan for the next one to two days and significantly decrease thereafter, according to the India Meteorological Department (IMD).

Some parts of Punjab, Haryana-Chandigarh, Uttar Pradesh, and East Rajasthan also witnessed dense to very dense fog conditions for a few hours in the night and morning hours today, and as per IMD, such conditions are likely to prevail in isolated pockets in Northwest India for the subsequent two days.

Apart from that, a fresh rain spell with thunderstorms or hailstorms is also likely over Northwest and Central India (Rajasthan and West Madhya Pradesh) from January 8 to 10.

IMD’s Latest Forecast

• As per IMD,  dense to very dense fog conditions are very likely to prevail in night and morning hours in some parts of Punjab and isolated pockets of Haryana, and Chandigarh till January 8 and dense fog in isolated pockets for the subsequent three days.
• “Dense to very dense fog conditions are very likely to prevail for a few hours in the morning in isolated pockets over West Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan on Sunday and dense fog in isolated pockets on January 8 and January 9,” said the IMD.
• The IMD also predicted dense fog conditions for a few hours in the morning in isolated pockets over eastern Uttar Pradesh till January 10, and over Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, West Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha, Assam, Meghalaya, Mizoram and Tripura till January 8.
• It further said cold day to severe cold day conditions are very likely to continue in some parts of Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh and Delhi on Sunday and cold day conditions on January 8.
• The IMD said that light to moderate rainfall is also very likely in some places over Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Lakshadweep during the next 4-5 days.
• Meanwhile, a fresh Western Disturbance is also expected to affect Northwest India from January 8.
• “Under its influence, light isolated rainfall is likely over Jammu & Kashmir, Ladakh, Gilgit-Baltistan, Muzaffarabad, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh, Delhi and Uttar Pradesh on January 8 and January 9,” said the agency.