The thick fog layer continued to grip parts North India including the states of Punjab, Haryana, Delhi, Rajasthan, East Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Northeast India. In fact, for the last 2-3 days, most parts of the northern plains that has been witnessing foggy mornings thereby dropping the visibility levels and affecting rail, road and air traffic.
The dense fog layer has resulted in rescheduling 13 trains, delaying 59 and canceling 21 others. In addition to this, 8 flights to and from the Indira Gandhi International Airport were also delayed.
As per Skymet Weather, light winds are prevailing over North India. Moreover, one after another Western disturbance is also affecting the Western Himalayan region along with a cyclonic circulation that was also persisting over Uttar Pradesh.
The temperatures are also very low in the plains of North India and all these factors resulted in dense to very dense fog over many parts of Punjab, Haryana, Delhi, North Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh.
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Dense to very dense fog was observed during the early morning hours today at a few places over Punjab and East Uttar Pradesh. Dense fog occurred at isolated places over Haryana, Rajasthan, North Madhya Pradesh and Bihar. While Assam and Meghalaya witnessed moderate fog.
The visibility dropped to nil in Amritsar during the early morning. While, during the same time, it dropped to 25 meters each in Ambala, Patiala, Chandigarh, and Sultanpur. On the other hand, Churu, Hisar, Sri Ganganagar, Gwalior, Lucknow, Gorakhpur, Bahraich, Satna and Gaya recorded the visibility levels at 50 meters each.
Due to persistent fog, the day temperatures also remained on the lower side leading to cold day conditions at many places over Punjab and Haryana and at a few places over Uttar Pradesh.
In the last 24 hours, the maximum temperatures remained below the 15-degree mark in stations such as Amritsar, Ferozepur, Ludhiana, Patiala, Aligarh, Moradabad, Meerut, Lucknow, Varanasi and Patna.
However, now, the Western Disturbance has moved away, and another feeble Western Disturbance is likely to approach the Western Himalayan region by tomorrow. Winds from the northwest direction are expected to gain speed and humidity levels are also expected to fall gradually leading to decrease in the fog intensity.
Hence, by tomorrow, the intensity and spread of the fog is likely to reduce and the day temperatures are also likely to start scaling up gradually. After 24-48 hours, the cold-day conditions are likely to abate from most parts of Northwest plains.
The pollution levels which are in the ‘severe’ zone over Delhi and NCR will also improve.
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