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Informist, Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2025

 

MUMBAI – Dense-to-very dense fog conditions are expected during the night and morning hours over a few parts of Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Chandigarh, and Punjab till Monday, over Uttarakhand till Sunday, and over Madhya Pradesh till Thursday, the India Meteorological Department said. Dense fog conditions are also likely over parts of Bihar, Jammu, Himachal Pradesh, Odisha, sub-Himalayan West Bengal, Jharkhand, Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, and northeast India till Sunday, the weather department said.

 

Visibility in "very dense fog" conditions drops to 0–50 metres and in "dense fog" conditions anywhere between 51 and 200 metres. In the past 24 hours, dense-to-very dense fog reduced visibility to less than 50 metres in many parts of Uttar Pradesh and in some parts of Uttarakhand, Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh, Delhi, and west Madhya Pradesh, the department said.

 

Cold day conditions are expected in pockets of Bihar till Sunday, the weather bureau said. A cold day occurs when the actual minimum temperature is 10 degrees Celsius or less for plains and 0 degrees Celsius or less for hilly regions.

 

Currently, a western disturbance lies to the northwest of the country. Another fresh feeble western disturbance is likely to affect the Western Himalayan region from Saturday, the weather bureau said. Under the influence of these weather systems, light to moderate rainfall or snowfall is likely over Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh, Gilgit, Baltistan, and Muzaffarabad from Saturday to Monday and over Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand on Sunday and Monday, the bureau said.

 

A gradual fall in minimum temperature by 2-3 degrees Celsius is expected over northwest India, Maharashtra, and central India in the next two days, the weather department said. In east India, no significant change in minimum temperature is seen in the next 24 hours, after which a gradual fall by 2–3 degrees is likely in the subsequent two days.

 

In Gujarat, minimum temperatures are expected to gradually fall by 2–3 degrees Celsius in the next three days, the department said. No significant change in minimum temperature is expected over the rest of the country in the next seven days, it said.  End

 

Reported by Shreya Shetty

Edited by Vandana Hingorani

 

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