NEW DELHI: Season’s first cold wave is about to start from next week as a western disturbance is likely to enter western Himalayas. It will set off icy cold winds from snow-clad Himalayas inducing a major drop in temperature next week, said IMD.Under its influence, a light to moderate rainfall will take place in Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh and Uttar Pradesh and snowfall over Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand. A dense fog is likely to engulf eastern and northwest India. There would be a drop in minimum temperature in the range of 2-8°C in northern plains. “A fresh Western Disturbance is seen as a trough in middle tropospheric westerlies,” the IMD said.
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