People residing in the north and north central part of the country woke up to witness foggy weather even on the second consecutive day. Season’s first fog was witnessed yesterday on November 30.
The extent of wintery chill can be made out from the fact that thick fog has blanketed most parts of Delhi- NCR, Haryana, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and parts of Madhya Pradesh. Dense fog cover has even led to disruptions in air, rail and road traffic.
As per the Media reports, due to poor visibility, operations at the Delhi Airport were temporarily shut. Most of the flights at the Indira Gandhi Airport, Delhi were delayed or rescheduled. However, very soon, the services were resumed.
As per the Northern Railways, close to 50 trains bound to Delhi were delayed. The thick fog cover over Delhi and NCR even led to crashing of 12 vehicles together at the Yamuna Expressway, Noida. One person is reported to succumbed to death while 10 were extremely bruised.
Very dense fog was witnessed over Palam airport, Delhi along with over Amritsar and Lucknow. Visibility recorded during early morning hours of today over the region was 0 or close to 0 meters.
In Delhi, 0 meters visibility was recorded from 04:30 am to 9:30 am, 0 meters visibility in Amritsar was recorded from 07:30 am to 10 am. While visibility was close to 0 meters in Lucknow from 2am to 8am.
During last 24 hours, minimum temperatures recorded in Delhi and Gurgaon was 11.9°C each, minimums recorded in Faridabad was 11.5°C, Amritsar recorded 9°C, Chandigarh 13°C, Jalandhar 8.5°C and Ludhiana 10.1°C.
As per Skymet Weather, the situation over these regions is likely to improve marginally tomorrow and significantly after 24 hours as dry northwesterly are expected to gain strength over these regions. Visibility is also expected to become less dense as compared to today's.
Both the maximum and minimum temperatures are expected to drop over these areas. However, till date, not much heavy snowfall has occurred over Western Himalayas which is why the northwesterly winds, are not as cold as they should have been.
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