Cold wave alert! Temperatures to dip across North India, visibility to drop due to dense fog

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India Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued an intense cold warning across North India for Thursday, January 8. It has also been predicted that a dense layer of fog will cloud several parts of North India, including Punjab, Haryana, Chanigarh, Delhi-NCR and Uttar Pradesh.

"There is a complete layer, which we can call a clear clouds dense fog layer, due to which the sunlight is not reaching the Earth directly. As a result, the daytime temperatures are lower than normal, which is why we have issued cold day warnings for some states. Specifically, if we talk about Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, and even Bihar, we have issued cold day warnings for the next two to three days. In addition, the morning temperatures in some places are also around 4 degrees Celsius or lower, such as in Punjab and Haryana, for which we have also issued a cold wave warning," IMD scientist Naresh Kumar on weather forecastsaid, as quoted by PTI.

Several places across northern India have shut down schools in view of persistent cold wave conditions. This includes Jammu and Kashmir where schools have been shut and will now open only on March 1, 2026.

Punjab and Delhi will resume schools on January 14 and 15, respectively. Harnaya will resume classes from January 16 and in Gautam Buddha Nagar, classes will resume on January 11.