New Delhi/Srinagar/Bhopal/UNI: National capital Delhi got a reprieve from cold wave conditions which, however, did not spare Jammu and Kashmir and the hinterland.
Srinagar-Jammu national highway remained closed for the fourth consecutive day on Saturday due to fresh snowfall and landslides.
Dense fog prevailed in Madhya Pradesh leading to death of two pilots in a plane crash in Sagar late Friday.
Two amateur pilots died when a training aircraft crashed in a farm while attempting to land in foggy weather late on Friday on Dhana Airstrip of Sagar. The Chimes Aviation Academy’s trainees A Makwana and P Chandel were rushed to a private infirmary where they succumbed.
The corpses of the instructor and the amateur pilot were handed over following autopsy to next of kin arriving here on Saturday, law-enforcement authorities said.
Instructor A Makwana and learner P Chandel both hailed from Mumbai.
According to India Metereological Department, the visibility was reduced to just 25 meters.
Hundreds of people are stranded due to closure of Srinagar-Jammu highway. Last night, vehicles were allowed to ply but at Digdol, a stone, due to a landslide, hit a vehicle whose driver was injured and rushed to a hospital.
Srinagar-Leh national highway also remained closed for the past 25 days due to accumulation of snow and slippery road conditions in sub zero temperatures.
Ladakh Hill Development Council, Leh, has signed an agreement with Army to import fresh vegetables as the region is cut off from the mainland.
Upper reaches of Kashmir Valley on Friday received fresh snow.
Mercury in Srinagar improved at minus 0.1 degree, about 2 notches above normal.
Punjab and Haryana shivered. Faridkot in Punjab, on Saturday, was coldest at 3.6 deg C. Patiala, Amritsar, Ludhiana witnessed minimum of 4.8, 4.6, 4.5 deg C.
In Haryana, Karnal and Ambala chilled at 6.8 and 4.5 deg C. Chandigarh recorded a low of 6.7 deg C.
In the National Capital, days are becoming warmer day by day since the beginning of the New Year. Saturday was a sunny day in Delhi with mercury in the 23-8 deg C range.
In Dehradun, the minimum and maximum was 7 deg C and 22 deg C. Jaipur saw 10 deg C and 23 deg C , Lucknow 10 deg C and 20 deg C, Shimla 11 deg C and 1 deg C and in Bhopal 11 deg C and 20 deg C.
Naliya, Gujarat, was the coldest with minimum 6.7 deg C. Ahmedabad recorded minimum of 12.9 deg C, over half a notch above normal.
A UNI report from Pune quoted the pan-India IMD bulletin said rain or thundershowers occurred in Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura and Odisha on Saturday.
Isolated pockets of Jharkhand, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Madhya Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, West Bengal, Sikkim, Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Telangana and Lakshadweep, too, received showers.
Dense fog will prevail in Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh, Delhi, West Bengal, Odisha and Rajasthan, IMD cautioned.
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