“Don’t drink alcohol. It reduces your body temperature,” the advisory study. “Get indoors. Eat vitamin-C-rich fruits and moisturize your skin regularly to counter the effects of severe cold,” it stated.
The IMD also asked citizens to stay away from or limit outside activities, but at the similar time, keep ventilation even though making use of heaters at dwelling “to avoid inhaling toxic fumes”. “Take safety measures while using electrical and gas heating devices,” it added.
Kuldeep Srivastava, the head of the regional forecasting centre of the IMD, told PTI that the mercury will enhance slightly on Sunday and Monday below the influence of a fresh Western Disturbance affecting the upper reaches of the Himalayas, but the relief will be quick-lived.
The Western Disturbance will lead to “scattered to fairly widespread” snowfall in Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand. After the wind program withdraws, cold and dry northerly or northwesterly winds from the western Himalayas will bring the minimum temperature in north India down by 3 to 5 degrees Celsius, he stated.
Why IMD has asked persons not to drink alcohol?
Drinking alcohol for the duration of intense cold climate puts one’s wellness at danger. As per a study carried out by the United States Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine, alcohol can reduce the core temperature of the body and enhance the danger of hypothermia for the duration of cold exposure. Hypothermia causes a person’s body temperature to reduce by more than 2 degrees Celsius, which can be harmful.