Several parts of North India reel under severe Cold wave

Cold wave conditions are set to return in north with a gradual fall in temperatures over the next four to five days.The Meteorological Department (IMD) has said yesterday that due to the prevailing northwesterly winds over most parts of northwest India.

Minimum temperature will fall gradually by 3-5°C starting from today to the next four to five days, leading to cold wave conditions in Uttarakhand, Punjab, Haryana and north Rajasthan.

The weather office has said that due to western disturbance, Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh, Gilgit and Muzaffarabad are witnessing scattered rain and snowfall and isolated rain and thunderstorms over Haryana, northeast Rajasthan, and west Uttar Pradesh.

The IMD said, dense to very dense fog is very likely to occur at isolated pockets 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.