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Amid the bone-chilling frigid climate and dense fog, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) has already predicted rains within the national capital and its neighbouring areas over the next couple of days.
Delhi awoke to a thick blanket of fog on Wednesday with very wretched visibility. Day to day poke operations had been affected attributable to dense fog, with extra than 50 flights delayed at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi Global (IGI) airport on Jan 31.
As per experiences, the national capital recorded its coldest January in 21 years via day temperatures. The point out most temperature in January at Safdarjung used to be 17.9 degrees Celsius. It used to be the identical as in 2015 and the bottom since 2003.
Amid this bone-chilling frigid climate and dense fog, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) has predicted rains within the capital city and its neighbouring areas over the next couple of days.
Rains amid foggy climate to extra plunge mercury
The Met department has furthermore issued a yellow alert within the national capital till February 2 within the wake of persistent dense fog over the next couple of days. On Wednesday afternoon, substances of Delhi furthermore obtained gentle rainfall after a foggy morning, which resulted in plunge within the temperatures extra.
The IMD has furthermore predicted gentle rain accompanied by gusty winds of 30-40 kmph at most locations over Delhi on Wednesday and gentle rainfall/drizzle on 1st and third February.
As per the Regional Meteorological Centre in Fresh Delhi apart from, the city will get gentle to very gentle rain (drizzle) on Thursday (Feb 1) with minimum temperature shedding to 8 degrees Celsius.
The department furthermore predicted dense fog with a partly cloudy sky on Friday (Feb 2) with a minimum temperature as low as 6 degrees Celsius. The heavy fog deliver within the city is no longer anticipated to come to a decision up better sooner than February 3.
There is furthermore a prediction for terribly gentle rain on Saturday (Feb 3) in the direction of the evening or evening, with a minimum temperature of 8 degrees Celsius.
“We’re anticipating heavy rain and blizzard within the mountain areas (Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, and Uttarakhand) attributable to the western disturbance. The perform of this disturbance would perchance be considered in easy areas esteem Haryana, Delhi NCR, and Uttar Pradesh,” said Dr Kuldeep Srivastava, Head of Regional Meteorological Centre, Fresh Delhi whereas speaking to ANI.
(With inputs from agencies)
