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Fog wreaks havoc in North India
| Air, rail schedules remain disrupted; all natural lakes and springs freeze |
FOGGY EVENING: A view of the fog-covered `Har ki Pauri' in Haridwar on Tuesday.
New Delhi: Air and rail travellers fretted and fumed with dense fog blanketing many areas in North India wreaking havoc even as biting cold wave pounding the region persisted despite a marginal rise in mercury in plains on Tuesday.
For the third consecutive day, flight and rail schedules were thrown haywire as a thick veil of fog covered Delhi and other places in the Northern region.
Fog threw normal life out of gear in most places in Punjab and Haryana even as mercury rose by a few notches in the two States.
However, the holy city of Amritsar in Punjab reeled under intense cold with mercury plummeting to 1.2 degrees Celsius, down by three degrees.
Pilani in Rajasthan was the coldest place in the desert State recording a low of 2.7 degrees Celsius as North Westerlies aggravated cold wave conditions in many districts.
Icy winds swept Himachal Pradesh which groaned under piercing cold with mercury plunging at many places.
A pale sun failed to warm up the State as temperatures stayed below normal in mid and higher hills.
Kinnaur, Lahaul-Spiti and Pangi valleys in high altitude areas shivered with minimum temperatures hovering between between minus 12 and minus 28 degrees Celsius.
All natural lakes and springs froze resulting in sharp decline in discharge of water in the Sutlej, Beas and the Ravi rivers.
Cold wave tightened its grip in UP with Allahabad, where saints had congregated for Ardh Kumbh Mela, registering a low of 6.5 degrees Celsius. The minimum temperature at Varanasi was 9.6 degree Celsius while it was 8.0 degree in Gorakhpur and 7.2 degree in Kanpur, Met officials said. However, no fresh death was reported from anywhere in the State due to the cold. PTI
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