Some relief, minimum temperature to rise: IMD

Tribune News Service

New Delhi, December 22

The IMD today said there would be a gradual rise in minimum temperatures by 3-5° Celsius over most parts of Northwest and Central India over the next three days, leading to abatement of cold wave conditions from the region.

Predicting a wet spell over Western Himalayan region between December 22 and December 29 and over plains of the Northwest during December 26 and 29, the IMD said the region would see two back-to-back western disturbances, first from December 24 and second from December 26. Under the influence of a western disturbance as a cyclonic circulation over north Pakistan and neighbourhood at lower tropospheric levels, isolated rainfall or snowfall is very likely in Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh, Gilgit-Baltistan and Muzaffarabad and Himachal Pradesh on Thursday.

Light or moderate isolated to scattered rainfall is also likely over Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh and Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan during December 26-29 and over Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Bihar and Jharkhand during December 27-29, it said.

“Gradual rise in minimum temperatures by 3-5°C is very likely over most parts of the Northwest and Central India during the next three days and no significant change thereafter. Dense fog in the morning hours in isolated pockets very likely over Punjab and Haryana on December 24 and 25 and over northwest Rajasthan,” the IMD said.