Delhi-NCR cold wave: Biting cold, icy winds start tonight

A cold wave is predicted to hit Delhi and the National Capital Region (NCR) next week, with the temperatures expected to go as low as 3 degree Celsius. The minimum temperature in Delhi on Friday was 10.2 degrees Celsius.The minimum temperature at Ayanagar and Ridge may settle around 3 degree Celsius on Tuesday and Wednesday.After bone-chilling nights for the past several weeks, the IMD prediction means that things could get worse for Delhi residents. The weather department has warned people of frostbite, asking them to limit their outdoor activity.
Snow in sections of the Himalayas and Kashmir is expected to intensify, which will be the cause of these chilly winds. Avalanche warnings were issued for a number of areas, with Kupwara receiving a u201chigh dangeru201d notice and eight other districts receiving a u201cmedium dangeru201d alert.Image Courtesy: Business TodayIn several areas of Punjab, Haryana, Delhi, and UP during the next five days, IMD predicts severe to very dense fog.
u201cDense fog very likely in isolated pockets during night and morning hours over Bihar during next five days; Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand during next four days and Gangetic West Bengal, Odisha, north Madhya Pradesh, Assam and Meghalaya and Tripura during next two days,u201d as per the IMD forecast.On January 14, a cold wave started to spread through areas of north India, bringing icy winds from snow-covered mountains that caused Churu, Rajasthan, to see a lowest temperature of -0.7u00b0C, the lowest minimum temperature for plains.
Officials claimed that Fatehpur, also in Rajasthan, reported -3.5u00b0C but that the data had not yet been verified. They attributed the reading to an automatic station rather than the manual recordings that are often made at local weather stations.Beginning over Rajasthan and Gujarat, the cold winds from the mountains will soon spread to Punjab, Haryana, Delhi, western Uttar Pradesh and western Madhya Pradesh on January 14 and 15, as per Mahesh Palawat of Skymet weather services.The cold-wave stretch will be the last of its kind for the season, as per Palawat, and temperatures in this area are predicted to climb once more on January 23u201324. There will likely be a small decline starting on January 26 but it wonu2019t be very noticeable.Comment down below.