IMD Weather Updates: There will be no respite from cold on New Year, red alert of dense fog in Delhi-Haryana, mercury will drop up to 6 degrees in North India

IMD Weather Updates: The first morning of the new year is going to start with dense fog and extreme cold in some parts of Delhi, Haryana and Punjab. The Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued a red alert in these areas for January 1. ‘Cold Day’ in Amritsar, Fatehgarh Sahib, Gurdaspur, Hoshiarpur, Jalandhar, Kapurthala, Ludhiana, Pathankot, Patiala, Rupnagar and Tarn Taran districts of Punjab. The conditions are going to be dense and foggy. 

‘Cold Day’ That situation is called when the minimum temperature remains less than 10 degrees Celsius for two consecutive days. Orange alert has been issued for Rajasthan, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh on January 1. The alert has been issued by the Meteorological Department because dense fog and bone-chilling cold is going to occur in these states. The oppression of winter is already continuing in these states, but people are not going to get relief in the coming days.

Fog is going to wreak havoc

IMD said, ‘Dense fog to very dense fog conditions are going to prevail in some parts of Uttar Pradesh from the night of December 31, 2023 to the morning of January 2, 2024. During this period visibility may be less than 50 meters. Fog will be seen in some other parts of the state also for the next 2-3 days.’ With the new year, the temperature will fall in Punjab, Delhi, Rajasthan, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh, due to which there will be severe cold. 

The Meteorological Department has said that there is every possibility of the temperature falling in the first week of January 2024. Because of this the temperature is going to be between 9 to 6 degrees Celsius. According to IMD, very dense fog occurs when visibility is between 0 to 50 meters. Dense fog occurs when visibility is between 51 and 200 meters. Moderate fog occurs between 201 and 500 meters. There is light fog during 1000 meter visibility. 

There will be a drop in temperature

People are facing a lot of problems due to dense fog and decreasing visibility. Maximum temperatures are likely to drop by 2-3 degrees Celsius over many parts of central and northwest India during the next two months and there may be no significant change in minimum temperatures over the rest of the country. Light rain may also be seen in Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh between January 1-3.