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  • Cold Wave: Delhi Shivers Under Dense Fog, Traffic, Flights Disrupted |

    New Delhi: Delhi experienced a foggy and freezing Sunday morning, affecting the movement of traffic and flights in the city. The mercury dipped to 7 degrees Celsius in RK Puram Area in the wee hours of the day. Many people, especially the homeless, sought shelter in the night camps run by the government, where they were provided with blankets, beds, hot water, and food. The night camps are meant to help the homeless survive the harsh winter conditions.

    The city had witnessed its first cold wave day of the season on Friday, as per the India Meterological Department (IMD). A cold wave day is declared when the minimum temperature drops below 4 degrees Celsius. The IMD also issued a warning for the travellers amid the severe cold and fog.

    It tweeted from its X handle, “Very dense fog layer extends over Punjab, Haryana, Delhi, North Rajasthan, and Uttar Pradesh. Passengers on highways need to drive extremely carefully and only with fog lights.” It further advised, “Journeys need to be halted until fog reduction by morning especially on expressways. Very Dense fog reporting over Amritsar, Chandigarh, Patiala, Ambala, Ganganagar, Palam, Safdarjung, Lucknow with visibility 0 meter since 0230 hrs IST of today.”

    The IMD said that the fog situation is likely to continue in some parts of northwest India for the next three to four days, especially in the morning hours. The Delhi Police also appealed to the motorists to drive safely in the low visibility conditions.

    It posted from its official X handle, “The Meteorological Department, Delhi, has forecast dense to very dense fog on January 14, 2024, and dense fog on January 15 & 16, 2024. We appeal to all to drive carefully in the fog.” The thick fog also affected the flight operations in the city, causing delays in several flights. Officials said that Vistara’s Delhi-to-Pune flight was delayed by more than an hour due to the fog.

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

    By PTI

    NEW DELHI: Cold wave conditions returned to large parts of northwest India with the onset of the New Year and the weather office has forecast dense morning fog over Uttarakhand, Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh over the next three days.

    The weather office said isolated pockets over Uttarakhand, Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh, Uttar Pradesh and western Madhya Pradesh are expected to experience cold day conditions over the next two days.

    Fog is common at this time of the year due to light winds and high moisture near the surface over the Indo-Gangetic plains. The cold winter conditions lead to the condensation of moisture and the formation of tiny liquid droplets that hang in the air.

    Due to north-westerly winds from the Himalayas over the plains of Northwest India, minimum temperatures are very likely to fall by 2-4 degrees Celsius over northwest and adjoining central India during the next two days, the India Meteorological Department said. Under its influence, cold wave to severe cold wave conditions are likely over the northern parts of Rajasthan till Tuesday.

    Delhi and adjoining areas had a brief respite from cold wave conditions last week.

    Winters have been relatively warm over most parts of north India, except for the latter part of December when regions of North and Northwest India experienced cold wave and dense fog conditions.

    The weather office has attributed the missing cold conditions over north India to the lack of strong western disturbances, or extratropical weather systems, that bring rains to the plains and snowfall at higher altitudes.

    This December, there were seven western disturbances, of which six were feeble over India and only one (December 28-30) was strong.

    The latest extratropical weather system brought the season’s first snowfall and rainfall over the upper reaches of Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand during the last three days.

    The weather office has forecast 86 per cent below normal rainfall of the long period average (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 said on Saturday.

    He said minimum and maximum temperatures may 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 said.

    NEW DELHI: Cold wave conditions returned to large parts of northwest India with the onset of the New Year and the weather office has forecast dense morning fog over Uttarakhand, Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh over the next three days.

    The weather office said isolated pockets over Uttarakhand, Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh, Uttar Pradesh and western Madhya Pradesh are expected to experience cold day conditions over the next two days.

    Fog is common at this time of the year due to light winds and high moisture near the surface over the Indo-Gangetic plains. The cold winter conditions lead to the condensation of moisture and the formation of tiny liquid droplets that hang in the air.

    Due to north-westerly winds from the Himalayas over the plains of Northwest India, minimum temperatures are very likely to fall by 2-4 degrees Celsius over northwest and adjoining central India during the next two days, the India Meteorological Department said. Under its influence, cold wave to severe cold wave conditions are likely over the northern parts of Rajasthan till Tuesday.

    Delhi and adjoining areas had a brief respite from cold wave conditions last week.

    Winters have been relatively warm over most parts of north India, except for the latter part of December when regions of North and Northwest India experienced cold wave and dense fog conditions.

    The weather office has attributed the missing cold conditions over north India to the lack of strong western disturbances, or extratropical weather systems, that bring rains to the plains and snowfall at higher altitudes.

    This December, there were seven western disturbances, of which six were feeble over India and only one (December 28-30) was strong.

    The latest extratropical weather system brought the season’s first snowfall and rainfall over the upper reaches of Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand during the last three days.

    The weather office has forecast 86 per cent below normal rainfall of the long period average (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 said on Saturday.

    He said minimum and maximum temperatures may 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 said.

  • 8 hurt as van rams into truck in UP due to dense fog

    By PTI

    SITAPUR: Eight people were injured when the van in which they were travelling hit a stationary truck here on Tuesday morning amid low visibility due to dense fog, police said.

    Four of the passengers sustained serious injuries in the accident that occurred near Kalli village under Misrikh police station area, they said.

    Due to dense fog and reduced visibility on road, the van rammed into the truck, which was parked on the roadside, from behind, the police said.

    Eight passengers were injured in the accident. The van driver and three passengers sustained serious injuries. All injured were rushed to the community health centre (CHC), they said.

    Four of the injured were referred to Lucknow for treatment as they were critically injured, said Dr Prakhar Srivastava at CHC Misrikh.

    SITAPUR: Eight people were injured when the van in which they were travelling hit a stationary truck here on Tuesday morning amid low visibility due to dense fog, police said.

    Four of the passengers sustained serious injuries in the accident that occurred near Kalli village under Misrikh police station area, they said.

    Due to dense fog and reduced visibility on road, the van rammed into the truck, which was parked on the roadside, from behind, the police said.

    Eight passengers were injured in the accident. The van driver and three passengers sustained serious injuries. All injured were rushed to the community health centre (CHC), they said.

    Four of the injured were referred to Lucknow for treatment as they were critically injured, said Dr Prakhar Srivastava at CHC Misrikh.

  • Three killed, 8 injured in multi-vehicle pileup on Lucknow-Agra Expressway

    By PTI

    AURAIYA (UP): Three people were killed and eight others were injured as three vehicles piled up on the Lucknow-Agra Expressway early Monday morning due to dense fog, police said.

    The accident occurred in Erva Katra police station area in which a truck, a sleeper bus and a car crashed into each other, police said.

    A joint rescue operation from police teams of different areas is underway, they said.

    The injured have been sent to Saifai Medical College, police said, adding efforts were on to identify the deceased.

    AURAIYA (UP): Three people were killed and eight others were injured as three vehicles piled up on the Lucknow-Agra Expressway early Monday morning due to dense fog, police said.

    The accident occurred in Erva Katra police station area in which a truck, a sleeper bus and a car crashed into each other, police said.

    A joint rescue operation from police teams of different areas is underway, they said.

    The injured have been sent to Saifai Medical College, police said, adding efforts were on to identify the deceased.