Dense fog at the New Delhi airport today inconvenienced commuters as several trains and flights were cancelled or delayed while vehicles moved at a snail’s pace here today.
Sources said three Delhi-bound flights from the city -- Jet Airways morning and evening flights and Kingfisher flight -- were cancelled today after visibility dropped to “less than 50 metres” at the Delhi airport in the morning.
Even though most trains are running on schedule, 12011 New Delhi-Chandigarh Shatabdi and the 14095 Himalayan Queen were delayed by about an hour and 45 minutes against their scheduled arrival of 10.50 am and 11.05 am, respectively, said station superintendent Parveen Kumar.
Meanwhile, cold wave conditions continued to lash the region as the minimum temperature dropped by about 4 degrees Celsius to 5.7 degrees while the maximum temperature continued to hover around 15.1 degrees Celsius.
Weather officials have predicted mainly clear sky with fog or mist during morning and evening hours. Local Met department director Surinder Pal said the western disturbance over northeast Afghanistan and adjoining Pakistan persisted. He said minimum temperatures would fall in the next couple of days and thereafter, the situation would improve gradually with the western disturbance moving towards east-north-east.
Dense fog would occur in many parts of Punjab and Haryana during morning and evening hours. Ground frost may occur at isolated places in the neighbouring states over the next two nights.
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