Commuters travel on a cold foggy morning in New Delhi yesterday. The national capital experienced a dense foggy morning for the second consecutive day with the low visibility affecting road, rail and air traffic.

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 Intense cold wave conditions accompanied by snowfall have left 24 people dead in Uttarakhand, officials said yesterday.

Officials in the hill state said two people died in Haldwani, three in Nainital, six in Bhimtal and Bageshwar, while 13 died in Kumaon since Tuesday.

Snowfall was witnessed in Bageshwar and Almora, both districts on the foothills of Himalayas. These places have never experienced such a weather in mid-December.

Almora, Pithoragarh and other regions in Kumaon are witnessing temperatures between 1 and minus 4 degrees Celsius.

Icy winds from Uttarakhand swept through the neighbouring Uttar Pradesh; its capital city of Lucknow was the coldest place as it recorded 6.6 degrees Celsius on Wednesday.

Cold wave continued unabated in Kashmir too. Leh town recorded the season’s coldest night at minus 14.6 degrees Celsius.

The minimum temperature in Kargil was minus 14, while Srinagar recorded an overnight temperature of minus 4.2.

Gulmarg and Pahalgam recorded minus 2.2 and minus 6.6 degrees Celsius respectively.

The minimum temperature in Jammu was 4.5.

Delhi meanwhile experienced a cold and foggy morning. The minimum temperature was 7.4 degrees

“There was fog in the morning, but the day will be clear. The maximum temperature is likely to hover around 20 degrees Celsius,” said an official of the India Meteorological Department.

Meanwhile in the south, cold conditions prevailed in Telangana, with Adilabad recording the lowest minimum temperature of 4 degrees. Temperature in other areas too was below normal.

Hyderabad recorded the season’s lowest temperature at 9.2 degree Celsius.

Adilabad in north Telangana was the coldest place in Telangana.

The lowest temperature in Adilabad was 5.2 on January 26, 2006, an official said.

The weather office has forecast that cold wave conditions will prevail in Telangana for three-four days.

 

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