IMD: Temperatures to fall in next 4-5 days; Cold wave returning
There has been comfortable warm weather conditions in the past few days. However, IMD said that cold wave conditions are returning with a gradual fall in temperatures over the next four to five days.
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The weather officer said, “Due to the prevailing of dry north/northwesterly winds over most parts of northwest India, minimum temperature will fall gradually by 3-5 degrees Celsius during the next four to five days, causing cold wave conditions over Uttarakhand, Punjab, Haryana and north Rajasthan during January 11-12,”
Due to Western Disturbance as a cyclonic circulation over north Pakistan and neighborhood in mid and upper tropospheric levels, scattered rain/snow is taking place over Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh, Gilgit-Baltistan, Muzaffarabad and isolated rain/thundershower over Haryana, northeast Rajasthan and West Uttar Pradesh.
IMD added, "because of abundant moisture available in lower tropospheric levels and other favorable meteorological features, dense to very dense fog at isolated pockets is very likely over Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh and west Uttar Pradesh and dense fog over Delhi, east Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and northwest Madhya Pradesh in the morning hours over the weekend."
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IMD stated, "Meanwhile, under the influence of cyclonic circulation over the southeast Arabian Sea, and another cyclonic circulation over south Sri Lanka and neighborhood in lower tropospheric levels, fairly widespread to widespread rainfall with moderate thunderstorm and lightning was very likely over southern peninsular India during the next three to four days."
The weather office has stated isolated heavy rainfall is also likely over Tamil Nadu, Puducherry and Karaikal from January 8-11 over Kerala and Mahe, and over coastal and south interior Karnataka on January 8 and 9.
-PTC News