IMD predicts a cold start to the New Year in Delhi

Key sentence:

• The India Meteorological Department (IMD) indicated that a cold wave would continue over Delhi on New Year’s Day.
• During a severe cold wave, the minimum temperature drops to 2 degrees Celsius, or the deviation from normal is greater than 6.4 degrees Celsius.

The India Meteorological Department (IMD) indicated that a cold wave would continue over Delhi on New Year’s Day. Such conditions would last until January 3, as the city experienced similar weather on Thursday.

According to the IMD, minimum temperatures in several states in the country’s central and northwestern regions are expected to drop by 2 degrees.

“Minimum temperatures in most parts of Northwest and Central India will drop by 2-4°C over the next 24 hours, with no significant change after that.” “There will be no significant change in minimum temperatures over most of East India over the next 24 hours, and temperatures will fall by 3-5°C after that,” the IMD predicted in its daily forecast.

Meanwhile, according to the IMD, until January 3, a cold wave or severe cold wave-like condition is expected in Delhi’s neighboring states of Punjab, Rajasthan, and Haryana.

According to the IMD, there will be “severe Cold Wave conditions in isolated/some parts of Punjab from December 30 to January 3; north Rajasthan from December 31 to January 3; Haryana and Chandigarh from December 31 to January 2.”

“Dense fog in isolated pockets very likely over Punjab, Haryana, and Uttar Pradesh in the evening/morning hours of December 31, as well as over East India on December 31, 2021, and January 1, 2022,” the report said.

During a severe cold wave, the minimum temperature drops to 2 degrees Celsius, or the deviation from normal is greater than 6.4 degrees Celsius. Delhi experienced a cold wave on December 20 and 21, as per the news agency PTI, with minimum temperatures of 3.2 and 4 degrees Celsius, respectively.

The minimum temperature is expected to rise beginning January 4 due to the influence of an active western disturbance, which is also expected to bring widespread rainfall and snowfall to Jammu and Kashmir and Himachal Pradesh between January 4 and 7, according to the IMD.