India's Delhi-NCR battles dense fog, 'excessive' air quality, IMD predicts 'colder' January

Unusual Delhi, IndiaEdited By: PrishaUpdated: Dec 31, 2023, 02:46 PM IST

The minimal temperature used to be recorded at 11 degrees Celsius at Safdarjung Observatory. Photograph:(PTI)

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India’s capital city battled a cold wave on the morning of the final day of the year as a thick layer of fog enveloped Delhi and its adjoining areas

Of us in India’s Delhi-NCR witnessed bone-chilling cold climate on Sunday (Dec 31) as cold wave on the final day of the year and a thick fog layer swept your total national capital and its adjoining areas.

The minimal temperature on the capital city’s most main climate web inform – Safdarjung Observatory. used to be recorded at 11 degrees Celsius. Town remained enveloped in dense fog which diminished visibility. The vehicular movement around Subroto Park, DND flyover, and India Gate remained crippled attributable to of depressed visibility.

As per the India Meteorological Division (IMD), ‘very dense’ fog is marked when visibility falls between 0 and 50 metres, 51 and 200 metres is ‘dense’, 201 and 500 metres ‘moderate’, and 501 and 1,000 metres ‘shallow’.

The met living of enterprise, in its forecast, talked about that dense to very dense fog will persist at most places in Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh and Delhi and diverse places in Uttar Pradesh as neatly as some places in Uttarakhand.

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Mercury to drop further

The IMD, in the meantime, talked about that the mercury will dip further in the first week of January 2024. The minimal temperature is expected to remain in the diversity of 10 to 7 degrees Celsius in the national capital on the Safdarjung Observatory.

Passengers travelling to and from the national capital on Saturday (Dec 30) had a harrowing time attributable to the foggy climate stipulations, as many trains and flights had been both delayed or diverted attributable to of low visibility cvaused by dense fog.

As per the sources, merely about 80 flights had been delayed attributable to of imperfect climate stipulations at Delhi’s IGI Airport till 8.30 am on Saturday. Many trains, which incorporated both native and prolonged-distance companies, faced disruptions which left passengers stranded and pissed off.

As per the Indian Railways, merely about 23 trains had been reported to be running in the abet of agenda in the Delhi save. Trains that are running late consist of Puri- Unusual Delhi Purushottam Categorical, Kanpur-Unusual Delhi Shramshakti, Howrah-Unusual Delhi Poorva Categorical, Saharsa- Unusual Delhi Vaishali Categorical, Rewa-Anand Vihar Categorical, Allahabad- Unusual Delhi Prayagarj Categorical, Azamgarh – Delhi Kaifiyat Categorical, Bhagalpur – Anand Vihar Vikramshila, Rajendranagar – Unusual Delhi Sampoorn Kranti.

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“Trains are stopping on the outer of each mountainous web inform. Here’s the major inconvenience. This would possibly well perchance unruffled be sorted out,” talked a couple of passenger at Anand Vihar Railway Put, while talking to ANI.

Meanwhile, Jorhat in Assam, Pathankot, Jammu, Agra, and Bhatinda recorded zero visibility Sunday morning (Dec 31). IMD added that visibility used to be reported at 25 meters in Ambala, 50 meters in Bikaner, Patiala, Chandigarh, and Gwalior, Jhansi. Meanwhile, visibility used to be recorded at 200 meters in Amritsar and Hisar.

(With inputs from companies)