Uttar Pradesh Mausam Updates Today 24 December: The entire North India is in the grip of terrible cold wave and fog these days. Meanwhile, the Meteorological Department has also issued a rain alert in four states of North India. On December 24, there may be moderate to heavy rain in Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh, Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh. Apart from this, an alert has also been issued regarding snow-fall in these states. Due to rain, the temperature may drop in many states and it may go below 7 degrees.
According to the Meteorological Department, on Wednesday, December 24, an orange alert has been issued regarding excessive fog in Aligarh, Muzaffar Nagar, Barabanki, Kanpur Dehat, Agra, Lucknow, Firozabad, Etawah, Auraiya, Bareilly, Prayagraj, Fatehpur, Ayodhya, Kaushambi, Kushinagar, Siddharth Nagar, Maharajganj, Balrampur, Shravasti and Lakhimpur Kheri in Uttar Pradesh. Drivers passing through these districts have been instructed to drive very carefully. In most of the districts of UP, the temperature may go below 10 degrees from December 25.
Lucknow, the capital of Uttar Pradesh, is not going to get respite from dense fog and cold. On Wednesday, December 24, the maximum temperature in Lucknow may be 21 degrees Celsius, while the minimum may be around 9 degrees. On December 23, the Air Quality Index (AQI) was recorded above 300 in areas like Aliganj, Talkatora and Lalbagh of Lucknow, which falls in the category of hazardous.