A cold wave swept across eastern UP, including Varanasi, on Tuesday following heavy snowfall in Uttaranchal and Himachal Pradesh.
However, experts believe that the current cold conditions were temporary and the temperature would again rise in the next couple of days.
Following the weather change a large number of residents swarmed the woollen markets at Beniabagh, Nai Sarak, Teliabagh, Maidagin to make necessary purchases for the winter.Strangel, authorities of Varanasi Nagar Nigam are yet to arrange bonefires at prominent crossings for the poor.
Noted meteorologist and former head of geophysics department in the Banaras
Hindu University, Prof. BRD Gupta said that the current cold wave would not continue for long and temperature would again rise in the next couple of days.
“It is a temporary phenomenon and the temperature falls only when western disturbance passes through Indo-Gangetic plains,” he said.
“The cold wave is a fallout of heavy snowfall in Uttaranchal and Himachal Pradesh, but this situation would not continue for long as the western disturbance is passing from high altitude areas like Uttaranchal, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir,” he added.
“Around four to five western disturbances which play an important role in bringing down the temperature, used to pass from Indo-Gangetic plains, including Eastern Uttar Pradesh in the month of December every year, but this year not a single western disturbance had passed from Indo-Gangetic plains,” he claimed.
{{/usCountry}}“Around four to five western disturbances which play an important role in bringing down the temperature, used to pass from Indo-Gangetic plains, including Eastern Uttar Pradesh in the month of December every year, but this year not a single western disturbance had passed from Indo-Gangetic plains,” he claimed.
{{/usCountry}}It may be recalled that maximum and minimum temperatures were recorded at 30.6 and 16.3 degree Celsius whereas the humidity was recorded as 84 per cent on Monday.