New Delhi: The India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Monday issued a notice regarding the approaching western disturbance which is likely to cause snowfall in Jammu, Kashmir, Ladakh, Gilgit, Baltistan, and Muzaffarabad; scattered snowfall over Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand.
The IMD has predicted that there could be thunderstorms over northern parts of Punjab, Haryana, and Chandigarh also.
At the point when the western disturbance moves away, affected by the resulting reinforcing of cold and dry northwesterly or northerly lower-level breezes, “cold wave” to “severe cold wave” conditions are probably going to be restored over Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh, and Delhi from Monday night or Tuesday and Rajasthan from Tuesday or Wednesday.
As per the IMD, “Cold wave” conditions are likely in confined pockets over Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, and Madhya Pradesh from December 30. Northern pieces of Saurashtra and Kutch are addidegreesly liable to encounter cold wave conditions on Monday and Tuesday.
A cold wave happens in fields when the base temperature is 10 degrees Celsius or underneath or potentially is 4.5 steps lesser than the season’s typical for two successive days. The virus wave is additionally proclaimed when the base temperature is under 4 degrees Celsius in the fields.