Schools will remain closed for students up to class 8 from today till year-end in view of cold wave conditions in Bihar's Patna, the district magistrate said in a notice.
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Sunday issued a fog warning for the next five days for many north Indian states. Dense to very dense fog is very likely in many pockets of Punjab and in a few pockets over Haryana and Chandigarh in the next 24 hours.
All kinds of transportation - planes, trains, and vehicles - were disrupted due to the storm this holiday weekend, closing hundreds of miles of road and air travel cancellations.
The MeT has issued a warning of severe cold conditions over the next few days in north Rajasthan, and till Monday in Punjab, Haryana, Delhi and Himachal Pradesh.
Over 2000 US flights were cancelled by various airlines across the world on Saturday morning (local time) following a massive winter storm that snarled airport operations around the United States and frustrated thousands of holiday travellers
India Meteorological Department on Saturday predicted a rise in both maximum and minimum temperature of about 2-3 degrees is very likely from December 27-30, 2022