The north India did not see any respite from the chilling winter as the region woke up to yet another morning of cold wave on Thursday (December 28). Several states of the country including Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana and Delhi witnessed dense fog this morning.
However, due to light winds flowing, some areas of Delhi and Noida experienced a marginal relief from the dense foggy situation. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) said that dense to very dense fog is likely to continue over northwest India during the next 3-4 days.
The spree of delays and diversions of flights continued on Wednesday due to bad weather caused by dense fog. According to the sources, at least nine flights were diverted at the Delhi airport due to bad weather.
Three flights of SpiceJet and one flight of Air India were diverted to Jaipur between 0900 and 1200 hrs, the officials said. Late in the evening, Vistara said five of its flights that were to land at the Delhi airport were diverted. At least five flights of Vistara were diverted due to bad weather in the national capital.
According to IMD, dense fog will prevail during night and morning hours in different parts of Delhi, Haryana, Punjab, Chandigarh, Uttar Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir and Rajasthan during the next 24 hours.
There is a possibility of very dense fog in Odisha, Assam, Manipur, Mizoram, Nagaland, Tripura and Meghalaya from December 28 i.e. from today till December 31. All these states witnessed reduced visibility due to dense fog this morning.
The Meteorological Department said that there is a possibility of very dense fog (visibility 50 metres) at some places in Delhi, Haryana, Punjab and Chandigarh in the early hours of the morning.
The Meteorological Department has advised people to drive carefully and at low speed due to dense fog in these states.
The IMD said that during the last 24 hours, minimum temperatures of 7-10 degrees Celsius were recorded in most parts of Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh and Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan. Minimum temperatures were recorded 2-3°C above normal in Punjab, Delhi, West Rajasthan, parts of Uttar Pradesh and many parts of Bihar, Jharkhand, Gangetic West Bengal, Gujarat and Northeast India.
The Meteorological Department said that there is a possibility of rain in some states of the country on the occasion of New Year. Light rain may occur over northwest and central India from December 31 to January 2, 2024. Light to moderate rain is likely over South Tamil Nadu from December 30 2023 to January 2 2024.
