Cold wave, dense fog set to grip North, Northwest India in first week of 2023

By PTI

NEW DELHI: Cold wave circumstances returned to giant elements of northwest India with the onset of the New Year and the climate workplace has forecast dense morning fog over Uttarakhand, Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh over the subsequent three days.

The climate workplace mentioned remoted pockets over Uttarakhand, Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh, Uttar Pradesh and western Madhya Pradesh are anticipated to expertise chilly day circumstances over the subsequent two days.

Fog is frequent presently of the yr attributable to mild winds and excessive moisture close to the floor over the Indo-Gangetic plains. The chilly winter circumstances result in the condensation of moisture and the formation of tiny liquid droplets that hold within the air.

Due to north-westerly winds from the Himalayas over the plains of Northwest India, minimal temperatures are very prone to fall by 2-4 levels Celsius over northwest and adjoining central India in the course of the subsequent two days, the India Meteorological Department mentioned. Under its affect, chilly wave to extreme chilly wave circumstances are probably over the northern elements of Rajasthan until Tuesday.

Delhi and adjoining areas had a quick respite from chilly wave circumstances final week.

Winters have been comparatively heat over most elements of north India, apart from the latter a part of December when areas of North and Northwest India skilled chilly wave and dense fog circumstances.

The climate workplace has attributed the lacking chilly circumstances over north India to the shortage of robust western disturbances, or extratropical climate programs, that carry rains to the plains and snowfall at greater altitudes.

This December, there have been seven western disturbances, of which six had been feeble over India and just one (December 28-30) was robust.

The newest extratropical climate system introduced the season’s first snowfall and rainfall over the higher reaches of Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand over the last three days.

The climate workplace has forecast 86 per cent under regular rainfall of the lengthy interval common (LPA) over northwest India between January and March.

The LPA of rainfall over northwest India for January-February-March is about 184.3 mm.

“If rainfall is indicated to be low, then it means that western disturbance activity is likely to be low. When there are fewer western disturbances, north-westerly winds may continue to blow over certain parts of northwest India,” IMD Director General Mrutyunjay Mohapatra mentioned on Saturday.

He mentioned minimal and most temperatures could also be low over Madhya Pradesh, southern Uttar Pradesh, east Rajasthan, and adjoining areas.

“But temperatures will be normal over Haryana and Punjab and could be above normal over higher areas like Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir,” Mohapatra mentioned.

NEW DELHI: Cold wave circumstances returned to giant elements of northwest India with the onset of the New Year and the climate workplace has forecast dense morning fog over Uttarakhand, Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh over the subsequent three days.

The climate workplace mentioned remoted pockets over Uttarakhand, Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh, Uttar Pradesh and western Madhya Pradesh are anticipated to expertise chilly day circumstances over the subsequent two days.

Fog is frequent presently of the yr attributable to mild winds and excessive moisture close to the floor over the Indo-Gangetic plains. The chilly winter circumstances result in the condensation of moisture and the formation of tiny liquid droplets that hold within the air.

Due to north-westerly winds from the Himalayas over the plains of Northwest India, minimal temperatures are very prone to fall by 2-4 levels Celsius over northwest and adjoining central India in the course of the subsequent two days, the India Meteorological Department mentioned. Under its affect, chilly wave to extreme chilly wave circumstances are probably over the northern elements of Rajasthan until Tuesday.

Delhi and adjoining areas had a quick respite from chilly wave circumstances final week.

Winters have been comparatively heat over most elements of north India, apart from the latter a part of December when areas of North and Northwest India skilled chilly wave and dense fog circumstances.

The climate workplace has attributed the lacking chilly circumstances over north India to the shortage of robust western disturbances, or extratropical climate programs, that carry rains to the plains and snowfall at greater altitudes.

This December, there have been seven western disturbances, of which six had been feeble over India and just one (December 28-30) was robust.

The newest extratropical climate system introduced the season’s first snowfall and rainfall over the higher reaches of Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand over the last three days.

The climate workplace has forecast 86 per cent under regular rainfall of the lengthy interval common (LPA) over northwest India between January and March.

The LPA of rainfall over northwest India for January-February-March is about 184.3 mm.

“If rainfall is indicated to be low, then it means that western disturbance activity is likely to be low. When there are fewer western disturbances, north-westerly winds may continue to blow over certain parts of northwest India,” IMD Director General Mrutyunjay Mohapatra mentioned on Saturday.

He mentioned minimal and most temperatures could also be low over Madhya Pradesh, southern Uttar Pradesh, east Rajasthan, and adjoining areas.

“But temperatures will be normal over Haryana and Punjab and could be above normal over higher areas like Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir,” Mohapatra mentioned.