New Delhi: Intermittent rainfall over the past 48 hours in the national capital has prompted the India Meteorological Department (IMD) to predict a huge drop in minimum temperatures across multiple regions of India. Due to that, north India, including Delhi, is expected to experience a chilly start to the New Year 2025, other than other parts of the country. Northwest India is expected to see a decline of 3-5 degrees in minimum temperatures over the next two days.
Meanwhile, no major changes are expected in minimum temperatures over the next 24 hours in West and Central India. However, a drop of 3-5 degrees is likely in these regions over the next three days. In East India, temperatures are expected to remain stable in the coming days, with a decrease of 2-4 degrees later on.
Rain, snow expected in Western Himalayas
Apart from that, two fresh Western Disturbances are expected to impact the western Himalayan region between January 1 and 6, 2025, bringing light rainfall and snowfall to the area. Earlier, the IMD had issued a yellow alert for Delhi. It predicted further rainfall over the weekend. The forecast for the next three days includes mainly clear skies, along with moderate to dense fog.
According to IMD data, the total rainfall in December has reached 42.8 mm, which marked the highest rainfall in the month in the last 15 years. The rainfall is attributed to an active western disturbance interacting with easterly winds, causing thunderstorms and rainfall in the Delhi-NCR region.
Cold wave, dense fog expected in multiple regions
The maximum temperature has also dropped to 9.5 degrees Celsius, which is the lowest in the past five years. Cold wave conditions are expected to prevail in isolated areas of Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan, Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh, Gilgit-Baltistan and Muzaffarabad on December 30 and 31.
The IMD has also forecast dense fog in several regions, including Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan, Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Sub-Himalayan West Bengal, Jharkhand, Assam, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram and Tripura, from December 28 to 31.
