New Delhi: North India continues to grapple with the cold wave with the entire region blanketed under dense fog. Temperatures in many places in Jammu and Kashmir went below the freezing point, while cities like Amritsar and Karnal in the plains proved colder than hilly Shimla.
Road traffic, flights and train disruptions have been reported in the many cities. Over 80 flights have been affected including 20 international flights that been delayed and one which has been cancelled. As a result of poor visibility, 60 domestic flights have also been delayed with 6 fights having been cancelled. Forty three trains across North India have been delayed while 10 have been cancelled.
New Delhi saw a cold and foggy Monday morning, with visibility dropping to less than 100 metres. The minimum temperature settled at 4.8 degrees Celsius. Sunday was the season's coldest day at 2.6 degrees Celsius.
The intense cold continued across Jammu and Kashmir, as Srinagar saw the minimum temperature of 4.1 degrees Celsius below the freezing point, Gulmarg minus 3.4 and Pahalgam a whopping minus 7 degrees. Leh town in the Ladakh region recorded a minimum of minus 15.4 degrees Celsius, while Jammu saw a low of 4.3.
In Srinagar, frost made roads slippery, preventing motorists and two-wheel riders from venturing out, while surfaces of the city's famed lakes froze, causing hardship to fishermen and boatmen.
In the plains of Punjab, Amritsar was the coldest city in the region with the minimum at the freezing point. Ludhiana and Patiala in Punjab saw lows of 4.1 and 3.4 degrees, respectively.
Chandigarh saw a low of three degrees Celsius, while in Haryana, Karnal (2.6), Ambala (3.7) and Hisar (3.1) were in the grip of an intense cold wave.
Dense fog continued to disrupt normal life in Punjab, Haryana and Chandigarh. Hill stations across Himachal Pradesh Monday saw partly cloudy skies, but temperatures in most places remained at sub-zero levels.
There also also chances of snowfall across Himachal Pradesh from January 3. Shimla recorded a low of 3.1 degrees Celsius, while Amritsar in Punjab was the coldest in the region registering mercury at the freezing point. Haryana's Karnal (2.6) was also colder than Shimla.
The desert state of Rajasthan continued to shiver in the grip of a cold wave Monday as dense fog affected normal life and led to delays in train services. Mercury plummeted to a record low of 3.4 degrees Celsius in state capital Jaipur, while the city of lakes Udaipur was equally cold at 3.2 degrees.
Churu was the coldest in the plains at 0.6 degree, while Mount Abu, the only hill station in the state, was shivering at 0.5 degree.
(With agency inputs)
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