Delhi continued to shiver on Saturday morning below the grasp of a relentless coldwave, accompanied by a thick layer of fog that has disrupted day by day life for residents and commuters alike.

Several trains had been delayed at Delhi’s Hazrat Nizamuddin Railway Station attributable to dense fog amid the extreme coldwave situations.

To fight the bone-chilling temperatures, streets and public areas grew to become dotted with small teams huddled collectively round bonfires to maintain heat.

Drone visuals from Munirka and Vasant Vihar areas confirmed fog enveloping town, lowering visibility and site visitors slowing right down to a crawl on main roads and highways.

The impression of the coldwave prolonged past Delhi, as neighbouring states skilled related climate woes. In Uttar Pradesh, Ayodhya was blanketed in dense fog, inflicting disruptions to day by day life. Similarly, in West Bengal’s Siliguri, a thick fog cowl added to the woes of residents.

According to the India Meteorological Department, Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh, and Uttar Pradesh are experiencing dense to very dense fog at many locations, severely affecting visibility and disrupting transportation. Jammu & Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, and Rajasthan are grappling with remoted situations of dense fog, creating difficult situations for residents.

The IMD predicts that dense to very dense fog situations are more likely to persist over North India for the subsequent 5 days. The meteorological division anticipates chilly day to extreme chilly day wave situations over the plains of Northwest India for the subsequent three days, with a gradual discount thereafter.

Dense fog is forecasted in remoted pockets of Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Sub-Himalayan West Bengal & Sikkim, north Madhya Pradesh, Jammu division, West Rajasthan, Bihar, Odisha, East Rajasthan, Assam & Meghalaya, Mizoram & Tripura throughout particular durations within the coming days.

In addition to the foggy situations, the IMD predicts that Cold Day to Severe Cold Day situations will persist in lots of elements of Punjab and Haryana-Chandigarh on January 13, with chilly day situations doubtless in remoted pockets for the following three days. Isolated pockets of Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh are additionally anticipated to expertise Cold Day situations at the moment.

On Friday, the nationwide capital woke as much as bone-chilling temperatures because the mercury plummeted to three.9 levels Celsius, marking the bottom temperature recorded this season, in keeping with officers from the IMD.

The most temperature for the day settled at 19.3 levels Celsius, barely under the season’s common, additional intensifying the coldwave that has engulfed the area. The IMD knowledge revealed that Friday’s minimal temperature was the bottom for this date since 2018. On January 12, 2017, town recorded a low of three levels Celsius.

Railway officers stated that 23 Delhi-bound trains skilled delays starting from one to 6 hours because of the thick fog.