There will be no respite from the bone-numbing cold and dense fog as the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued a warning of a severe cold day for Thursday.
The severe cold forecast of the IMD named over 40 districts including Lucknow, Barabanki, Sultanpur, Ayodhya, Ambedkar Nagar, Saharanpur, Shamli, Muzaffarnagar, Azamgarh, Mau, Ballia, Deoria, Gorakhpur, Sant Kabir Nagar, Basti, Kushinagar, Maharajganj, Siddharth Nagar, Gonda, Balrampur, Shrawasti, Bahraich, Lakhimpur Kheri, Sitapur, Hardoi, Kanpur Nagar, Unnao, Baghpat and Meerut.
In Lucknow, the maximum and minimum temperature on Wednesday was 12 degrees and 7.3 degrees Celsius, respectively. The Met department has predicted dense to very dense fog with cold day conditions very likely over the area on Thursday and Friday. The maximum and minimum temperature will be around 14 degrees and 7 degrees Celsius, respectively.
The IMD also issued a warning of very dense fog likely over Lucknow, Barabanki, Rae Bareli, Amethi, Sultanpur, Ayodhya, Ambedkar Nagar, Aligarh, Mathura, Hathras, Kasganj, Etah, Agra, Firozabad, Pratapgarh, Varanasi, Jaunpur, Ghazipur, Azamgarh, Mau, Ballia, Deoria, Gorakhpur, Sant Kabir Nagar, Basti, Kushinagar, Maharajganj, Siddharth Nagar and other districts.
For Friday too, it has issued warning of severe cold in Deoria, Gorakhpur, Sant Kabir Nagar, Basti, Kushinagar, Maharajganj, Siddharth Nagar, Gonda, Balrampur, Shrawasti, Bahraich, Lakhimpur Kheri, Sitapur, Ambedkar Nagar, Saharanpur, Shamli, Muzaffarnagar, Baghpat, Meerut, Ghaziabad, Bijnor, Amroha, Moradabad, Rampur, Bareilly, Pilibhit, Shahjahanpur, Sambhal, Budaun and adjoining areas.
The last two days in Kanpur remained the coldest in the last 50 years of the city. While the minimum temperature dropped to 2 degrees Celsius on Tuesday night, Monday night recorded 3.6 degrees Celsius. According to data from the CS Azad University for Agriculture and Technology, never since 1972, January 2 and January 3 have been this cold. The maximum temperature also was lowest on these two days at 10 degrees Celsius.
{{/usCountry}}The last two days in Kanpur remained the coldest in the last 50 years of the city. While the minimum temperature dropped to 2 degrees Celsius on Tuesday night, Monday night recorded 3.6 degrees Celsius. According to data from the CS Azad University for Agriculture and Technology, never since 1972, January 2 and January 3 have been this cold. The maximum temperature also was lowest on these two days at 10 degrees Celsius.
{{/usCountry}}The head of Met department at the University, Dr SN Pandey, said that Kanpur will continue to reel under severe cold wave till January 8. “The cold is already breaking records, January 2 and 3 were not this cold since 1972. Alert has been sounded in 36 districts for cold wave conditions,” he said.
Severe weather conditions have spiked the number of deaths due to heart attacks and brain strokes. In the last two days, 24 people died at the cardiology hospital because of heart attacks. Four people died of brain stroke.
The LPS Institute of Cardiology has seen a pretty heavy rush of heart patients on Tuesday as 727 people came to emergency and another 609 patients were examined in the OPD. Doctors admitted 47 of them to the hospital.
Institute’s director, Dr Vinay Krishna, said winter adds to the trouble of heart patients and they need to take all the precautions. The HOD of neurology at LLR Hospital, Alok Varma, said the number of patients with brain stroke has substantially increased.
As the visibility remained bare minimum in the morning all the four flights from and to Kanpur were cancelled. In total 69 trains were running late by six to eight hours. Similarly, 2,977 passengers cancelled their reservation at Kanpur Central railway station on Tuesday.
The state forecast is that the weather is most likely dry over the state.
Fatehpur was coldest with 3.2 degrees Celsius, Najibabd 4.5 degrees Celsius, Bulandshahr 5, Agra 5.2, Muzaffarnagar 5.6, Jhansi and Moradabad 6, Bareilly and Basti 7 degree Celsius.