Most of North India grappled with dense fog situations for a 3rd consecutive day, inflicting widespread disruption in air and rail providers. About 200 flights arriving or departing from New Delhi’s Indira Gandhi Worldwide Airport have been delayed and 10 cancelled.
In response to the flight monitoring web site Flightradar24, 59 arriving flights have been delayed and 4 have been cancelled. In the meantime, 138 departing flights have been delayed and 6 cancelled.
In response to the India Meteorological Division (IMD), very dense fog was reported in Palam since 11:30 pm on Saturday. The visibility was zero for 3.5 hours at Palam right now (4 am-7:30 am), higher than the 9-hour spell on Friday. Because the wind pace picked up, visibility improved barely at Palam at 8 am.
Safdarjung reported minimal visibility of fifty m as calm winds (4 kmph) prevailed at 5:30 am. This additional improved changing into 100 m at 7:30 am.
The Indira Gandhi Worldwide Airport issued an advisory for passengers that operations have been impacted on account of fog. “Low visibility procedures are nonetheless in progress at Delhi Airport. Nonetheless, there was no impression on flight operations. Passengers are requested to contact the airline involved for up to date flight data,” the advisory learn.
Passengers have been stranded at New Delhi Railway Station as a number of trains have been delayed on account of dense fog situations, information company PTI reported.
Delhi is anticipated to witness intense fog until January 8, with gentle rain doubtless on January 6, based on the IMD.
Not solely Delhi, however airport stations throughout components of India reported visibility lower than 200 m early Sunday. Whereas Gwalior airport in West Madhya Pradesh reported zero visibility as of seven:30 am, Gorakhpur and Kushinagar airport in East Uttar Pradesh recorded visibility within the vary of 0 to 50 m, based on the India Meteorological Division (IMD). Airport stations together with that of Srinagar in Jammu and Kashmir; Dum Dum in West Bengal; Rourkela in Odisha; Amritsar in Punjab; Patna in Bihar; Lucknow, Prayagraj and Azamgarh in Uttar Pradesh reported visibility of 200 metres early right now.
The IMD has additionally forecast heavy snowfall over Jammu and Kashmir, Ladakh on Saturday and over Himachal Pradesh on Sunday. The climate division stated chilly wave situations are prone to persist in components of Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Assam, Meghalaya, Telangana and north Karnataka.
The place else flight operations have been impacted?
As many as 11 flights scheduled to depart from Chandigarh to numerous locations have been cancelled on account of dangerous climate. Two flights from Chandigarh to Mumbai and Delhi on Sunday have been additionally cancelled.
The cancelled flights included these to Delhi, Bangalore, Ahmedabad, Leh, Chennai, Kolkata, Srinagar, Mumbai, Jaipur, Pune, and Hyderabad.
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