As many as 10 flights, scheduled to leave from Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGI), turned into not on time due to dense fog, reassets knowledgeable on Wednesday. Among the flight routes tormented by the extreme fog had been Delhi-Shimla, Delhi-Kathmandu, Delhi-Chennai, Delhi-Jaisalmer, Delhi-Bareilly, Delhi-Mumbai, Delhi-Varanasi, Delhi-Srinagar, Delhi-Jaipur, and Delhi-Guwahati, the airport reassets knowledgeable.
Already reeling beneathneath a chilly wave when you consider that the start of the brand new year, citizens withinside the country wide capital on Wednesday woke to a cold morning with a thick layer of fog. Safdarjung recorded a minimal temperature of 5.nine diploma Celsius round 6.10 am.
According to the Met department, the visibility in Palam turned into recorded at a hundred meters at 6.10 am. As turned into forecast, dense to very dense fog turned into found over components of Punjab, Northwest Rajasthan, Jammu division, Haryana, Chandigarh and Delhi, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Tripura.
“Dense/Very Dense Fog layer (withinside the white patch) extends from Punjab to Bihar throughout Haryana, Delhi and Uttar Pradesh,” tweeted the India Meteorological Department. On the alternative hand, the Northern Railway knowledgeable on Wednesday that 26 trains had been jogging overdue because of fog.
Meanwhile, the country wide capital persevered to reel beneathneath worsening air quality, with the general AQI breaching the ‘extreme’ category, at 421. On Monday, the AAP authorities withinside the country wide capital imposed a brief ban on using BS-III petrol and BS-IV diesel four-wheelers until January 12.
The Air Quality Index from zero to a hundred is taken into consideration as good, from a hundred to two hundred is moderate, two hundred to three hundred is terrible, from three hundred to four hundred could be very terrible and four hundred to 500 or above is taken into consideration extreme.
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