Weather Update
IMD sees heavy rain, snow in north India Sun on fresh western disturbance
This story was originally published at 14:06 IST on 28 January 2026
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MUMBAI – A fresh western disturbance is likely to start affecting northwest India in the second half of Friday, and is expected to lead to heavy rainfall or snowfall over parts of Jammu & Kashmir, Ladakh, Gilgit-Baltistan, Muzaffarabad, and Himachal Pradesh on Sunday, the India Meteorological Department said.
The same weather system is expected to cause fairly widespread rainfall or snowfall accompanied by thunderstorms, lightning, and gusty winds over the Western Himalayan region and the adjoining plains of northwest India on Sunday, the weather department said. Light rainfall with thunderstorms and lightning is also likely over parts of Rajasthan on Sunday, the department said.
Dense fog conditions are expected during nighttime in parts of Jammu & Kashmir, Ladakh, Gilgit-Baltistan, Muzaffarabad, and Odisha till Friday, over Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Haryana Chandigarh, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, and Madhya Pradesh till Saturday, and over sub-Himalayan West Bengal, Sikkim, and Bihar on Friday and Saturday, the weather bureau said. Visibility drops to 0–50 meters in "very dense fog" conditions and between 51–200 meters in "dense fog" conditions.
The weather department has warned of cold wave conditions over parts of Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana, and Chandigarh till Saturday. A cold wave condition is when the minimum temperature drops to 10 degrees Celsius or less in the plains and 0 degree Celsius or lower in the hilly regions, according to the weather bureau.
A gradual fall of 2–4 degrees Celsius in minimum temperature is expected over northwest and central India in the next two days, after which a rise in the same range is likely in the subsequent two days, the weather bureau said. In Gujarat, the minimum temperature is likely to gradually rise by 3–5 degrees Celsius in the next three days, and thereafter a gradual fall of 2–3 degrees Celsius is seen in the subsequent four days.
No significant change in minimum temperature is likely over the rest of the country, the weather department said. End
Reported by Shreya Shetty
Edited by Avishek Dutta
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