First Day Of 2024 Chills Delhi People; Trains Delayed, Fog Alert From IMD

Winter 2024: In the nation’s capital, people woke up to a cold wave and thick fog on a leisurely Sunday, making for an extremely frigid New Year’s morning. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) said that the minimum temperature in the capital was 9°C. As a result, the residents urged the administration to make the required preparations for the underprivileged or those seeking shelter at night.

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Locals who were out in the cold were observed gathering around bonfires to take refuge from the jumping, crackling flames as the temperature plummeted. People who were out and about in the early hours of the day, performing errands, pleaded with the government and relevant authorities to set up additional shelters so that the impoverished and those living on the streets could spend the nights in the bitter cold.

“People living on sidewalks are bearing the brunt of the prevailing cold wave in the national capital. One has to travel a lot in the cold to reach the night shelters in the city. They are situated at a significant distance from each other. Not many can go there in this cold,” a resident told ANI on Monday.

“We had a lot of trouble spending the night in this cold. We collected some litter on the streets to light a bonfire. This bone-chilling winter has only added to our everyday woes,” another man on the street told ANI.

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Information from IMD

In the meantime, the IMD issued a warning for “dense fog” in the nation’s capital during the first week of 2024, predicting a low of 8 to 9 degrees Celsius.

“The fog layer (encircled patch) over Punjab, north Rajasthan, Haryana, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, northwest Madhya Pradesh, south Uttarkhand, Sub-Himalayan West Bengal is visible in a satellite picture at 06:15 am of January 1,” read a post on the official IMD handle on X.

When visibility is between 0 and 50 meters, the IMD classifies the fog as “very dense,” and when visibility is between 51 and 200 meters, it is classified as “dense.” Additionally, vision between 201 and 500 meters is deemed “moderate” for fog, while between 501 and 1,000 meters, it is deemed “shallow.”

In the meantime, on New Year’s morning, numerous trains to Delhi were delayed due to poor visibility as thick fog covered the whole North Indian area. The Railways reported that numerous trains headed for the stations in Anand Vihar, Nizamuddin, and New Delhi were four hours late.