The temperature in several states was in the single digits, and commuters had to deal with thick fog and poor visibility in the early hours of Thursday due to the extreme cold that persisted throughout North India. “Very dense fog” was reported in a few areas of Punjab, Haryana, West Rajasthan, and Bihar at 5:30 a.m. on Thursday, according to an official statement from the India Meteorological Department (IMD).
Similar heavy fog was also reported in isolated parts of Delhi, West Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand, Odisha and Assam while moderate fog was observed in isolated parts of Sub-Himalayan West Bengal and Sikkim, according to IMD.
The Met agency informed further that shallow fog was also experienced in isolated parts of eastern Rajasthan, eastern Uttar Pradesh and western Madhya Pradesh.
The IMD also forecast dense to very dense fog for a few hours late night and morning over many parts of Punjab, Haryana and Chandigarh between January 18 (Thursday) and 20 and in isolated parts on January 21 and 22.
Furthermore, the IMD predicts that over the course of the next 24 hours, a rise in minimum temperatures of roughly 2 degrees Celsius is very likely over Northwest India, but that there won’t be any further significant changes. Meanwhile, most of Bihar, East Uttar Pradesh, many West Uttar Pradesh, some Haryana, and isolated areas of Uttarakhand, West Rajasthan, north Madhya Pradesh, and Gangetic West Bengal experienced cold to extremely cold day conditions on Thursday, according to the national weather forecaster.