Vehicles caught in a heavy site visitors jam at Delhi-Gurugram Expressway amid fog-triggered low invisibility, in Gurugram on Monday.
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Dense fog cloaked Delhi on Tuesday morning, decreasing visibility to only 50 metres and affecting highway and rail motion.
An official of the India Meteorological Department (IMD) stated the Palam observatory close to the Indira Gandhi International Airport recorded a visibility stage of fifty metres.
Thirty-nine trains had been delayed by an hour to five-and-a-half hours because of the foggy climate, a Northern Railways spokesperson stated.
Satellite photographs confirmed a dense layer of fog persisting over huge swathes of north India, extending from Punjab to Bihar throughout Haryana, Delhi and Uttar Pradesh.
According to the climate workplace, ‘very dense fog’ is when visibility is between 0 and 50 metres, between 51 and 200 metres is ‘dense’, between 201 and 500 metres ‘average’, and between 501 and 1,000 metres ‘shallow’.
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Delhi noticed chilly wave situations for the fifth consecutive day on Monday. The season’s longest fog spell has crippled highway, rail and air site visitors motion.
IMD officers stated the Palam observatory recorded visibility ranges under 1,000 metres from 8:30 p.m. on Sunday to 4:30 p.m. on Monday.
The Safdarjung observatory, Delhi’s major climate station, recorded a minimal temperature of 6.4 levels Celsius.
With this, officers stated, chilly wave situations within the nationwide capital have abated.
The Safdarjung observatory has recorded minimal and most temperatures a lot under regular ranges thus far this month.
It logged a minimal temperature of three.8 levels Celsius on Monday, 1.9 levels Celsius on Sunday, 2.2 levels Celsius on Saturday, 4 levels Celsius on Friday, 3 levels Celsius on Thursday and 4.4 levels Celsius on Wednesday.
Meteorologists attribute the lengthy spell of intense chilly to a big hole between two western disturbances, which meant frosty winds from the snow-clad mountains blew in for a longer-than-usual interval.
