Delhi Weather Update: With a low of just 3.5 degrees Celsius on Sunday, Delhi saw its coldest dawn of the winter season. In the vicinity of Lodhi Road, the temperature dropped to 3.4 degrees Celsius.
Dense Fog Shrouds Delhi-NCR
A dense layer of fog enveloped the majority of Delhi-NCR, leaving absolutely no visibility on the roads. There were about 22 trains arriving in Delhi from different areas of the nation running late, and the heavy fog also caused many flights at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport to be cancelled.
Weather Challenges Cause Flight Interruptions for IndiGo Airlines
The heavy fog conditions of today are causing delays for 22 trains that are headed for Delhi from different regions of the nation. “Due to prevailing weather challenges in northern India, our flight schedules may experience interruptions!,” IndiGo airlines wrote on X.
The lowest temperature that was recorded in Delhi yesterday was 3.6 degrees Celsius. According to the weather service, there is little chance that the heavy fog and ongoing cold wave conditions will break in northwest India during the next three to four days, or until January 16.
Zero Visibility Zone
For the first time this winter, there was no visibility reported in areas of the nation, including Bareilly, Lucknow, Varanasi, Prayagraj, Tezpur, Assam, Amritsar, Patiala, Ambala, Chandigarh, Palam, Safdarjung, and Bareilly.
Late on Saturday, the IMD issued a forecast, stating, “Fog conditions observed at 23:30 hours of January 13: Moderate fog in isolated pockets of Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and northwest Madhya Pradesh and shallow fog in isolated pockets of Chandigarh, Delhi and Assam.”
Weather Service Predicts Persistent Dense to Extremely Dense Fog
According to the weather service, there will be dense to extremely dense fog today and on January 15 and 16. As per the IMD, visibility in very dense fog is defined as being between 0 and 50 metres, dense between 51 and 200 metres, moderate between 201 and 500 metres, and shallow between 501 and 1,000 metres.
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