Alerts issued for heavy rainfall, severe cold wave; Varanasi Vande Bharat among several trains delayed: See IMD forecast

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IMD also predicted wet spell over Western Himalayan Region from 29 January to 3 February, with possibility of heavy rainfalls on 30 and 31 January. The weather agency also warned of very dense fog and severe cold day conditions very likely to continue over Uttar Pradesh and Bihar during next 2 days and improve gradually thereafter.

“Fog conditions observed (at 0530 hours IST of today): Dense to very Dense fog over some parts of Uttar Pradesh; in isolated pockets of Bihar; Moderate fog in isolated pockets of Punjab, Delhi, Madhya Pradesh; Shallow fog in isolated pockets of Rajasthan, Odisha and Andhra Pradesh." reported IMD. -Moderate rainfall or snowfall predicted over Jammu, Kashmir, Ladakh, Gilgit, Baltistan, Muzaffarabad, and Himachal Pradesh during next 7 days till 3 February -Heavy rainfall or snowfall predicted over Kashmir on 30 and 31 January, over Himachal Pradesh on 31 January -Moderate rainfall or snowfall predicted over Uttarakhand and light rainfall over Punjab, Chandigarh, Haryana, West Uttar Pradesh during 31 January to 2 February -Severe Cold Day conditions very likely to continue in isolated pockets over Bihar from 29 to 31 January -Severe Cold Day conditions very likely to continue in some parts of Uttar Pradesh on 29 January -Cold Day conditions very likely to continue over Uttarakhand on 29 January -Very dense fog conditions very likely to prevail in Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan during 29 Jan to 30 January -Very dense fog conditions very likely to prevail in Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh on 29 January -Very dense fog conditions very likely to prevail in Bihar on from 29 to 31 January -Dense Fog conditions predicted in Uttarakhand, north Madhya Pradesh, Sub-Himalayan West Bengal, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram,