Mercury is falling slowly in many parts of India. Due to western disturbances, there will be heavy snowfall in Jammu and Kashmir and parts of Himachal Pradesh. Uttarakhand can get snowfall on Friday and Saturday as well. The effect can be seen in the plains as well. People may face extreme cold. Delhi is likely to have light rains on Friday night and Saturday morning. People are expected to get relief from pollution.
Apart from Delhi, scattered showers are expected in Haryana, Chandigarh and Punjab in two days. Heavy snowfall is likely in parts of the western Himalayas due to the high humidity from the Arabian Sea to northwestern India. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued a warning in its bulletin. Thundershowers are likely in Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh and some parts of Punjab today. Rain is expected in Uttarakhand on both Saturday and in central Maharashtra.
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By December 14 there is a possibility of dense cloud cover in isolated fog in Uttar Pradesh. Dense fog is seen in Bihar and Odisha, West Bengal, Sikkim and Tripura, and in parts of Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh Chandigarh, Delhi and Uttarakhand today and tomorrow and Monday and Tuesday next week. IMD forecasts indicate a sharp drop in minimum temperatures after December 18 in northwestern India.
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Delhi-NCR has improved as air speed increases
As of Friday morning, the air quality in the cities and towns of northwestern India fell in the most poor category. The air quality index in Delhi for the poorest segment is 272. However, Kanpur continued to record high air quality. Strong winds continued in Delhi on Friday, pushing the city’s air quality index to 272.
Data from the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) showed that Delhi’s overall air quality index (AQI) was the poorest category, ie 284. On Wednesday, AQI went to the very poor category (358).
VK Soni, head of the IMD’s Environmental Monitoring Research Center, said: “The average wind speed on Thursday was about 10 km to 12 km. Though the wind direction is northwest, the contribution of farmland fire from neighboring states Punjab and Haryana is now zero.”
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