Dense fog disrupted air and rail schedules here on Wednesday, as the
mercury touched a freezing 4.8 degree Celsius, the lowest in the past 44
years.
As many as 26 trains got delayed, 10 cancelled and 25 rescheduled owing
to foggy conditions on a day when the maximum temperature was 9.7 degree
Celsius.
The fog also impacted schedules of 30 flights in the morning, leading to
the cancellation of seven of them. A Hong Kong- Delhi Air India flight had to be
diverted to Mumbai.
The Indira Gandhi International Airport here witnessed dense fog since
the wee hours of Wednesday. Visibility on the third runway dropped to a low of
25 metres, following which the airport authorities temporarily stopped flight
operations.
The permissible visibility limit for a flight to take off is 150 metres.
While the temperature in Agra, Uttar Pradesh plummeted to 0.9 degree
Celsius, there were reports of fog in various parts of North India including
Haryana and Punjab.
The temperature at Narnaul in Haryana dropped to a minimum of 2.4 degree
Celsius and the minimum temperature at Mathura in Uttar Pradesh hovered around
3 degree Celsius.
This caused delays in train schedules in Haryana, Punjab and Uttar
Pradesh.
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