Cold wave conditions grip Bihar, Punjab, Haryana; IMD issues orange alert in Bihar

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Students locomotion  to their schoolhouse  amid dense fog connected  a acold  wintertime  greeting  successful  Amritsar connected  Monday, December 22, 2025.

Students locomotion to their schoolhouse amid dense fog connected a acold wintertime greeting successful Amritsar connected Monday, December 22, 2025. | Photo Credit: ANI

Cold question conditions gripped Bihar connected Friday (December 26, 2025), with the mercury falling beneath 10°C successful respective districts, according to the India Meteorological Department (IMD).

The IMD issued an orangish alert for dense to precise dense fog on with acold time conditions crossed respective parts of the State, advising radical to enactment cautious.

Aurangabad and Sabour successful Bhagalpur were the coldest places successful the State astatine 7.4°C, followed by Gayaji astatine 7.6, Bhagalpur and Sheikhpura astatine 8.9 each, Valmiki Nagar successful West Champaran and Dehri astatine 9°C each, Jehanabad astatine 9.3 and Saharsa astatine 9.5°C, the IMD said.

An orangish alert for dense to precise dense fog successful East Champaran, West Champaran, Gopalganj, Siwan, Saran, Sitamarhi, Sheohar, Muzaffarpur, Vaishali, Patna, Bhojpur, Buxar, Kaimur, Rohtas, Aurangabad, Arwal, and Jehanabad has been issued.

Low visibility owed to fog was besides reported from antithetic parts of the State connected Friday (December 26, 2025), it said. People person been advised to instrumentality indispensable precautions, peculiarly during aboriginal greeting hours, and authorities person been urged to stay vigilant arsenic reduced visibility could disrupt road, obstruction and aerial traffic, said an authoritative of the IMD, Patna.

Punjab, Haryana reel nether aggravated cold

With wintertime astatine its peak, Punjab and Haryana were gripped by aggravated acold connected Friday (December 26, 2025).

In Punjab, Narnaul was the coldest, with the minimum somesthesia recorded astatine 5.5°C, according to the section meteorological department. Amritsar recorded a debased of 8.7°C, 5 degrees supra the season’s normal, portion Ludhiana and Patiala recorded minimum temperatures astatine 8.4 and 7.7°C respectively, astir 2 notches supra normal, the Met bureau said.

Pathankot recorded a minimum somesthesia of 6.2°C and Bathinda recorded a debased of 8.2°C, portion Gurdaspur and Faridkot recorded 6 and 8.5°C respectively.

Chandigarh, the associated superior of the 2 states, saw a minimum somesthesia of 8.8°C.

In the neighbouring Haryana, the minimum somesthesia successful Ambala was recorded astatine 8.9°C, 2 degrees supra normal, portion Hisar registered a debased of 6.1°C.

Karnal witnessed a debased of 8°C, 1 grade supra normal.

Rohtak, Bhiwani and Sirsa registered minimum temperatures of 7.8, 7.5 and 8.6°C, respectively.

Published - December 26, 2025 12:36 p.m. IST

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