Haryana’s Hisar reports lowest minimum temp at 1.1°C

Dense to very dense fog was reported over Delhi, Haryana, Punjab and Eastern Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday morning, with cold wave to severe cold wave conditions prevailing over most parts of Haryana-Chandigarh-Delhi, the Meteorological department said.

According to the IMD, ‘very dense’ fog is when visibility is between 0 and 50 metres, 51 and 200 metres is ‘dense’, 201 and 500 metres ‘moderate’, and 501 and 1,000 metres ‘shallow’.
Airport authorities said that around 30 flights departing from Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International (IGI) airport were delayed, while 17 flights were cancelled due to weather conditions.

Dense to very dense fog conditions are very likely to prevail for a few hours over many parts of Punjab and Haryana, Chandigarh and Delhi on January 17 morning, in some parts on January 17 night and on January 18 morning and Dense fog in some parts for subsequent 24 hours, according to the IMD.

Meanwhile, cold wave to severe cold wave conditions also prevailed over many parts of Punjab, in isolated pockets of East Madhya Pradesh, northwest Rajasthan and West Uttar Pradesh.

In Punjab’s SBS Nagar, a 0.4 degree Celsius minimum temperature was recorded in Ballowal Saunkhri. In Haryana, Mahendragarh recorded 0.7 degree Celsius, Hisar recorded a minimum of 1.1 degree Celsius and at Panchkula, the minimum temperature recorded was 1.8 degree Celsius.

Temperatures were recorded below normal (-1.6 degree Celsius to -3 degree Celsius) at many places over Haryana-Chandigarh-Delhi, at a few places over Punjab; at isolated places over Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Gangetic West Bengal, South Interior Karnataka, Jammu-Kashmir-Ladakh-Gilgit-Baltistan-Muzaffarabad and near normal over the rest parts of the country.

Cold day conditions are very likely at a few pockets over Punjab and Haryana, Chandigarh on Wednesday. Cold wave conditions are very likely at a few places over Punjab, Haryana-Chandigarh-Delhi and at isolated places over Rajasthan on January 17.

According to the IMD prediction for January 17, dense to very dense fog is very likely at a few places over Punjab, Haryana Chandigarh-Delhi while dense fog at a few places over Bihar; at isolated places over Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand and Sub-Himalayan West Bengal and Sikkim. Cold day conditions very likely at a few pockets over Punjab and Haryana-Chandigarh. Cold wave conditions very likely at a few places over Punjab, Haryana-Chandigarh-Delhi; at isolated places over Rajasthan.

The IMD predicted that on January 18, dense fog is likely at a few pockets over Punjab, Haryana-Chandigarh-Delhi; at isolated places over Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Jharkhand and Cold wave conditions likely at isolated places over Rajasthan.

For January 19, it said that dense fog is likely at a few pockets over Punjab, Haryana-Chandigarh-Delhi; at isolated places over Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Jharkhand and on January 20, dense fog likely at a few pockets over Punjab, Haryana-Chandigarh-Delhi; at isolated places over Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Jharkhand.