As winter has set in its full form, different scenes of the season unfolded in states across India. While north, northwest and central India shivers in severe cold wave and dense fog, rainfall along with thunderstorm and hailstorm have battered many eastern and southern states. Two separate videos shared online by news agency ANI showed how hailstorm lashed Assam’s Dibrugarh district on Tuesday, while Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam turned into a snow wonderland after receiving fresh snowfall on Monday night.
In a one minute 30-second-long video, Dibrugarh streets were seen covered with chunks of frozen rain turning the city almost completely white. The Met department said the district’s minimum temperature was recorded at 12.6 degrees Celsius on Tuesday while the maximum will settle at 26 degrees Celsius during the day. It further stated that there will be a generally cloudy sky with one or two spells of rain or thundershowers.
Meanwhile, Pahalgam which is known for its extreme temperatures and snowfall, recorded a minimum temperature of minus 6.7 degrees Celsius today. This was a departure of one degrees Celsius from Monday when the region recorded a minimum temperature of minus 5.7 degrees Celsius.
North India has been battling severe cold day conditions for the past few days, even as the IMD has predicted the situation to continue for at least the next 24-48 hours. Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan, Delhi and Uttar Pradesh continued to witness dense fog amid dipping minimum temperatures.
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In its latest bulletin, the IMD has forecast cold to severe cold wave conditions to continue in north Rajasthan and in isolated pockets of Punjab, Haryana, Delhi, Chandigarh for the next two days, and in Himachal Pradesh for the next 24 hours.
In Assam, light rain has been predicted on December 28 with fog/mist and partly cloudy sky in the subsequent days till January 2.
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