Dense fog covers Delhi, rain likely in northwest India: IMD
NEW DELHI: The national capital and other parts of the country witnessed dense fog and cold wave on Thursday morning leading to poor visibility, as per India Meteorological Department (IMD).
The data recorded by the national weather forecasting agency stated that the visibility in Delhi’s Palam, Punjab’s Amritsar, Uttar Pradesh’s Lucknow, Northwest Madhya Pradesh’s Gwalior, Sub Himalayan West Bengal’s Cooch Behar and Assam’s Dhubri was at 50 meters at 8:30 am today.
Dense fog was also reported in parts of Bihar. The visibility dropped at 50 meters in Gaya and at 8:30 am. Haryana’s Karnal and Hissar also reported 50 metres each. “Dense fog is being reported at 0830 hrs IST over Delhi (Palam 50m), Punjab(Amritsar 50m), Haryana(Karnal and Hissar 50m each), UP(Lucknow 50m), northwest MP(Gwalior 50m) Bihar(Patna and Gaya 50m), Sub Himalayan West Bengal (Cooch Behar 50m) and Assam (Dhubri 50m),” IMD said in a tweet.
Uttar Pradesh witnessed cold waves and fog gripped in Gorakhpur city due to which ‘Gorakhpur-New Delhi Express’ train movement was affected and delayed by 2 hours and 30 minutes.
“Cold wave and fog grip Gorakhpur city with train movement also affected GorakhpurNew Delhi Express (12555) delayed by 2 hours 30 mins,” Chief Public Relations Officer (CPRO), Northern Railways informed.
Rain likely in northwest Widespread rain is likely in parts of northwest India including Punjab, Haryana, and Delhi over the weekend, the India Meteorological Department has said as a cyclonic circulation is lying over north Bangladesh and a western disturbance as a cyclonic circulation is over Afghanistan.
A fresh active western disturbance is likely to affect northwest India from Friday and an induced cyclonic circulation is very likely to form over Rajasthan on Saturday.
Isolated to scattered rainfall or snowfall is very likely in Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh, Gilgit-Baltistan, Muzaffarabad, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand.
On Friday, Isolated to scattered rainfall is likely in Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan.
Fairly widespread rainfall is likely in the region over the weekend. Isolated to scattered rainfall is expected in Madhya Pradesh.