Cold Wave
IMD forecasts cold wave to severe cold wave in parts of Karnataka Sat-Sun
This story was originally published at 14:30 IST on 12 December 2025
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MUMBAI – Severe cold wave to cold wave conditions are likely in parts of north interior Karnataka over the weekend, with cold wave conditions likely to prevail on Monday, according to the India Meteorological Department. Cold wave conditions are also likely over pockets of Vidarbha and central Maharashtra on Saturday, and over Chhattisgarh, Telangana, south interior Karnataka, and Odisha on Saturday and Sunday, the weather department said.
The weather bureau has warned of very dense fog over west Uttar Pradesh during the weekend and over east Uttar Pradesh from Saturday to Monday. Dense fog conditions are likely to prevail during the early hours in parts of west Uttar Pradesh from Saturday to Monday, and over east Uttar Pradesh from Saturday to Tuesday, the bureau said. Similar weather conditions are also likely over parts of northeast India from Saturday to Wednesday, over Punjab and Haryana from Saturday to Monday, and over Himachal Pradesh during the weekend.
Under the influence of a fresh western disturbance to the northwest of the country, light rainfall or snowfall is likely over the Western Himalayan region and Jammu-Kashmir-Ladakh-Gilgit-Baltistan-Muzzaffarabad from Saturday to Thursday and over Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand on Sunday, the weather department said.
In northwest India, minimum temperatures are likely to rise gradually by 2–3 degrees Celsius in the next four days, the weather department said. In Vidarbha and Chhattisgarh, a similar rise in minimum temperatures is seen in the next two days, the department said.
No significant change in minimum temperatures is likely over Maharashtra in the next 24 hours, after which the temperatures could rise by 2–3 degrees Celsius in the subsequent five days. In Gujarat, no major change in minimum temperature is seen in the next five days, and thereafter a rise by 2–3 degrees Celsius is likely in the subsequent two days, the department said.
No major change in minimum temperature is likely over Madhya Pradesh, east, and northeast India in the next seven days, the department said. End
Reported by Shreya Shetty
Edited by Ashish Shirke
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