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Weather report :Intense cold and dense fog in north India, minus 4.2 degrees Celsius recorded in jammu & Kashmir

Intense cold and dense fog gripped large areas of northern India on Wednesday, severely reducing visibility, disrupting rail services and causing vehicular pile-ups in Uttar Pradesh, while the harshest ‘Chilla-i-Kalan’ of winter played out in Kashmir on the freezing edge of many water bodies. At least 11 people were injured in a multi-vehicle pile-up on the Lucknow-Gorakhpur National Highway, even as light fog enveloped Delhi, where 18 trains were delayed from 1.30am to 5am.

Traffic at the Delhi airport remained normal. However, three flights were turned back or diverted to Delhi airport on Tuesday evening due to bad weather in Chandigarh, Varanasi and Lucknow. Amid low temperatures, high humidity and calm winds, a layer of dense to very dense fog persisted over Punjab, Haryana, northwest Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and parts of Uttarakhand, the India Meteorological Department said. By 5.30am, visibility in Bhatinda was zero; 25 m in Ganganagar, Amritsar and Bareilly and 50 m in Varanasi, Bahraich and Ambala.

In a statement issued at 1:30 pm, the IMD said that dense to very dense fog in many/most pockets is very likely over Punjab, Haryana, Delhi and Uttar Pradesh during night and morning hours in the next 24 hours due to moisture and light. winds in the lower tropospheric levels over the Indo-Gangetic plains.

According to the IMD, very dense fog is when the visibility is between 0 and 50 meters, 51 and 200 is dense, 201 and 500 is medium, and 501 and 1,000 is shallow. The Sadarjung observatory, Delhi’s main weather station, recorded a minimum temperature of 7.1 degrees Celsius, a degree below normal. The maximum temperature settled at 21.2 degrees Celsius, the lowest so far this season. The minimum and maximum temperatures are likely to drop to 5 degrees Celsius and 20 degrees Celsius respectively in the coming days.

A bus overturned after colliding with a truck on the Lucknow-Gorakhpur state highway, leading to a pile-up of more than 12 other vehicles. 11 people in the vehicles behind the bus were injured. A day earlier, two persons were killed and 15 injured in separate accidents in low visibility due to dense fog in different districts of Uttar Pradesh. Dense fog also enveloped several places in Uttar Pradesh on Wednesday morning and people across the districts faced severe cold with the night temperatures dropping.

According to a report from the meteorological center in Lucknow, most areas in the eastern and western parts of the state witnessed fog and drop in temperature in the morning. During the last 24 hours, a significant drop in day temperature was recorded in Moradabad and Meerut divisions of the state. Prayagraj, Bareilly, Moradabad, Ayodhya, Kanpur and Bareilly also saw a drop in day temperatures. Fursatganj was the coldest place in the state in the last 24 hours with the temperature dropping to 4.9 degrees Celsius.

Dense fog is expected in Maharajganj, Siddharthnagar, Gorakhpur, Kushinagar, Deoria, Sant Kabir Nagar, Saharanpur, Muzaffarnagar, Amroha and Bijnor in the next 24 hours. Kashmir’s harshest winter season ‘Chilla-i-Kalan’ began on Wednesday with the mercury dipping several degrees below the freezing point at many places including Pahalgam where the night’s lowest temperature was recorded at minus 6.2 degrees Celsius. ‘Chilla-i-Kalan’ is a 40-day period when a cold wave hits Kashmir and temperatures drop significantly. “Chillai-Kalan” will end on January 30. The cold wave continues in Kashmir after this with a 20-day ‘Chillai-Khurd’ (small cold) and a 10-day ‘Chillai-Bachha’ (childhood cold).

Several places in Kashmir have experienced the coldest nights of this season so far. The edges of many water bodies, including Dal Lake here, have frozen over, as has water in taps, officials said. Srinagar recorded a minimum temperature of minus 4.2 degrees Celsius last night, they said. The famous ski resort of Gulmarg in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district recorded a minimum of minus 4.6 degrees Celsius. The mercury settled at a low of minus 4.4 degrees Celsius in north Kashmir’s Kupwara, minus 4.2 degrees Celsius in Qazigund and minus 2.4 degrees Celsius in Kokernag.

In the first, the Sinthan Pass, which connects Kashmir to the Chenab Valley in the Jammu region, the first day of Chillai Kalan was opened for tourists and locals, officials said. The road also helps maintain connectivity of Jammu and Kashmir divisions when NH 44 is blocked due to inclement weather, they said.

By: Vaishali verma

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