Cold Wave: The weather office forecast a cold wave to last for the next two days after reports of extreme cold in Delhi and other areas of north India.
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- With the arrival of a cold wave, temperatures have significantly dropped in Delhi, Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, and Rajasthan over the past week.
- The temperature in Delhi dropped to 5.3 degrees Celsius on Sunday, three degrees below average, making it the city's coldest Christmas in years.
- Haryana, Punjab, Chandigarh, and portions of Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh were all obscured by thick fog. The Indian Metrological Department (IMD) predicted that following regions would likely see fog through December 27.
- Minimum temperatures throughout the majority of Delhi, Punjab, Chandigarh, and Haryana ranged from 3 to 7 degrees Celsius, according to officials.
- A number of locations around the nation have experienced traffic and train delays as a result of reduced visibility brought on by the fog, according to officials.
- Rajasthan is seeing a record-breaking drop in temperature this year, with snowfall in Mount Abu, a hill station, and zero degrees in Churu, the entrance to the Thar.
- Over the course of the next two days, the IMD warned that isolated pockets of cold wave conditions are also highly likely over Kutch and Saurashtra.
- The Western Himalayan region is expected to get sporadic snowfall, according to the weather service. A yellow alert has been issued in Tamil Nadu due to the potential for heavy rain in some areas of the state.
- Schools in Bihar's Patna will be closed to kids in grades 1 to 8 until the end of the school year due to the bitter cold, while schools in Ghaziabad will be open from 10 am to 3 pm for students of standard 1 to 8.
- As the minimum temperature in Kashmir dropped several degrees below the freezing point, the frigid conditions worsened. The 40-day worst winter season, known as "Chilla-i-Kalan," is currently gripping Kashmir.
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