Fog after relative clearness during the Republic Day celebrations has again returned to hit normal life across the region. Fog keeps engulfing the Terai belt of the mountainous State since Wednesday evening. Now, things have come to such a pass that the vehicles are finding it hard in the mornings and the evenings to negotiate with the declining visibility. Dipping mercury is further compounding things for the people in Kumaon's Terai region as elsewhere.
Vehicular mobility going out of gear during the night hours keeps affecting the long- distance passengers. However, there has been no rainfall here after the brief spell of the same over the last weekend i.e. before the R- Day celebrations.
Dense fog in the morning is landing school children in trouble too. Amid snowy conditions, the temperature is already low in the upper pockets of the Himalayan State registering around 4 degree Celsius. Now, the foggy conditions have also resulted in the mercury dipping in the Terai belt of Uttarakhand, keeping it below 10 degree Celsius.
The weather experts have not ruled out continuation of the prevailing atmospheric conditions in this northern Himalayan region in the days to come.The prevailing cold conditions, resulting in increased power demand, are causing electricity outages. The hilly and remote areas of the hill state are bearing the brunt of power-cuts dragging for hours. local faults happening here and there are adding to the woes of the electricity-consumers.
Meanwhile, respective district administrations have asked the officials concerned to take necessary measures to deal with any adverse situation caused by the prevailing weather conditions, particularly in the upper Himalayan regions, where road connectivity remains poor due to continuing snowfall.