Cold wave rips through Chandigarh; relief unlikely for next few days, says IMD
Chandigarh, January 10: Residents of Chandigarh are unlikely to get relief from bone-chilling cold and foggy conditions for the next few days, says the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD).
In a statement issued on Tuesday, the IMD said amid dry weather, Punjab was witnessing foggy conditions, while severe cold day conditions were prevailing in many areas of Punjab and Haryana. Such conditions were making things difficult for the residents of Chandigarh. The roads in the city were seen covered in sheets of mist.
Punjab's Bathinda district recorded a minimum temperature of 2.4 degree Celsius while Bhiwani in Haryana recorded a minimum temperature of 3.8 degrees Celsius. People braved through a thick fog on Tuesday as dense to extremely dense fog conditions engulfed northern parts of the country, with less than 100 m visibility at 8.30 am in several areas, including Jammu, Patiala, Karnal, while in Delhi's Palam it dipped to zero.
"Less than 100 m visibility at 8.30 am in Punjab's Patiala, Amritsar and Ludhiana, Haryana's Bhiwani and Karnal, Delhi's Palam, UP's Bareilly, Bahraich, Lucknow, Gorakhpur, Prayagraj and Bihar's Gaya, Bhagalpur and Purnea," as per IMD.
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Amid a severe cold wave prevailing in the entire north Indian belt, Safdarjung in Delhi recorded a minimum temperature of 6.4°C while Palam recorded a minimum temperature of 7.5°C, till 8:30 am. Visibility in the Palam area was recorded at 50 metres while at Safdarjung, it was 200 metres, as per the data from India Meteorological Department.
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As many as 40 flights, scheduled to depart from Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGI), were delayed because of dense fog, sources informed on Tuesday.
- ANI
