IMD predicts cold wave, dense fog in parts of India

India Meteorological Department (IMD) has forecast cold day to severe cold day conditions at isolated places over Uttar Pradesh today. The weather department also predicted cold day conditions over Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh and Madhya Pradesh today. The IMD added that a western disturbance as a Cyclonic Circulation lies over west Iran which is likely to cause light to scattered rainfall and snowfall over the Western Himalayan region today and tomorrow.

According to IMD, dense fog conditions are likely to prevail in the night and morning hours of Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, and Sub-Himalayan West Bengal today. Further, similar conditions are expected in



Sikkim, Assam, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram and Tripura over the next 2-3 days.

The Met Department also predicted a rise in minimum temperatures by three to five degrees Celsius over Northwest India during the next five days and a rise in minimum temperatures by two to three degrees Celsius over Maharashtra during the next two to three days.

Briefing the media virtually yesterday, Director General of IMD, Mrutyunjay Mohapatra said that minimum temperatures are expected to be higher than normal in most parts of the country this month, except in some areas of the eastern, northwest, and west-central regions.