As Cold Wave Sweeps North India, IMD Predicts Rain & Snowfall In Delhi & Other States

Light to moderate rainfall or snowfall is expected to occur in Jammu and Kashmir-Ladakh, Gilgit-Baltistan, Muzaffarabad, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand during the next 24 hours, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said in its forecast.

Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh, Delhi, west Uttar Pradesh, east Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh will receive isolated and scattered rainfall in the next 24 hours.

Dense fog conditions are very likely in isolated pockets of Madhya Pradesh during the next three days and cold day conditions on 25 and 26 January.

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An IMD official said the cloud cover shielding Madhya Pradesh from cold and light rainfall was expected to start departing from Monday, though rains or thunderstorms are likely to occur in isolated places in Rewa, Sidhi, Satna, Singrauli, Shahdol, Umaria, Anuppur, Mandla, Balaghat, Sagar, Seoni, Morena, Datia and Bhind districts.

He added an east-west trough was running from the above cyclonic circulation over Haryana and neighbourhood to north Chhattisgarh across south Uttar Pradesh.

The weather agency has also predicted that cold wave conditions over Delhi, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh will continue for the next few days.

According to the IMD, minimum temperatures are above normal by 5-7¡ãC in Gujarat; 3-5¡ãC in Rajasthan, Punjab, Haryana and Madhya Pradesh and by 1-2¡ãC in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Odisha, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and West Bengal and near normal over rest parts of north India.

On Monday, Delhi and adjoining areas were engulfed in dense fog with the minimum temperature settling at eight degrees Celsius, normal for this time of the year.

The relative humidity at the Safdarjung observatory, considered the official marker for the national capital, was recorded at 95 per cent.

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The weather office has forecast partly cloudy sky for the day with cold conditions likely to prevail at a few places. The maximum temperature is likely to hover around 16 degrees Celsius. On Sunday, the maximum and minimum temperatures were recorded at 14.9 degrees Celsius and 10.5 degrees Celsius, respectively.

Delhi¡¯s air quality was recorded in poor category as the Air Quality Index (AQI) read 244 at 8 am.

The weather department has also predicted light rain over a few parts of North Goa and isolated places over South Goa during the next three to four hours. ¡°Light rain very likely at a few places over North Goa and isolated places over South Goa district during the next 3-4 hours. At 0900 hrs, clouds are moving towards the talukas of Pernem and Bardez. Clouds are generally moving in the North-East direction," IMD Goa said in a tweet.