Cold Wave In First Week Of 2023: With the beginning of the new year, cold wave conditions have returned in large parts of North West India. The Meteorological Department has predicted dense fog in Uttarakhand, Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh in the next three days. The weather office said that isolated parts of Uttarakhand, Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh, Uttar Pradesh and West Madhya Pradesh are likely to experience cold conditions over the next two days. Due to gentle winds and high humidity near the surface in the Indo-Gangetic plains, fog is common at this time of year because in cold winter conditions, moisture condenses to form liquid droplets in the air that form fog. takes.
The India Meteorological Department said that due to northwesterly winds coming from the Himalayas in the plains of northwest India, the minimum temperature in northwest and adjoining central India is likely to drop by two to four degrees Celsius during the next two days. is likely to. Under its influence, cold wave to severe cold wave conditions are likely to prevail in the northern parts of Rajasthan till Tuesday. There was some relief from the cold wave conditions in Delhi and surrounding areas last week.
The Meteorological Department said this about the cold
Winter has been relatively mild over most parts of North India except in the second half of December, while cold wave and dense fog conditions were observed over North and North West India. The weather office attributed the low cold conditions over north India to the lack of strong western disturbances or extra-tropical weather systems, which brought rain to the plains and snowfall in higher altitudes. There were seven Western Disturbances this December, out of which six were weak over India and only one (from 28-30 December) was strong. The recent extra-tropical weather system caused season’s first snowfall and rain over the higher reaches of Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand during the last three days.
Meteorological Department forecast about rain
The weather office has forecast 86 per cent less rainfall than the long period average (LPA) normal for northwest India between January and March. The LPA of rainfall over North-West India for January-February-March is about 184.3 mm. IMD Director General Mrityunjay Mohapatra said on Saturday (December 31, 2022), “If there is a sign of less rainfall, it means that the activity of western disturbance is likely to decrease. When the Western Disturbances are less, then North-West winds can blow in some parts of North-West India.
He said that the minimum and maximum temperature may remain low in Madhya Pradesh, Southern Uttar Pradesh, East Rajasthan and surrounding areas. Mohapatra said, “Temperature will be normal in Haryana and Punjab and it may be above normal in higher reaches like Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir.”
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