New Delhi:

Sunday morning stays wrapped in a thick blanket of fog in Delhi and different components of the nation. As many as 22 trains and 150 flights linking the nationwide capital have been delayed. RK Puram recorded the minimal temperature at 7 levels this morning.

The visibility was discovered to be zero within the airport space. Delhi airport had issued a fog alert final evening itself, urging fliers to contact the airways for up to date flight info.

Airways too have flagged “climate challenges” in northern India with finances service IndiGo saying their flight schedules might expertise interruptions as a result of unhealthy climate.

SpiceJet alerted that departures/arrivals and their consequential flights might get affected resulting from poor visibility in Delhi, Amritsar, Jammu, Varanasi, Gorakhpur, Guwahati, Patna, Bagdogra and Darbhanga,

In Chennai, the place Pongal celebrations start at this time, 5 inbound worldwide flights have been diverted to Hyderabad and 18 flights delayed. Chennai airport has suspended landings at the very least for an hour.

Very dense fog have been reported in Punjab, Haryana, Delhi, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Jammu division, Chandigarh, Assam and south inside Karnataka, whereas components of Tripura, coastal Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu reported reasonable fog.

The air high quality has additionally dipped to the ‘extreme’ class in a number of areas in Delhi. The climate workplace has issued a crimson alert in view of the chilly and fog circumstances and forecast dense fog in Delhi until Tuesday.

Friday noticed the season’s first chilly wave day with the temperature dipping to three.9 levels Celsius. Saturday’s was coldest evening because the temperature fell to season’s coldest at 3 levels in Aya Nagar, the final village of Delhi on the Mehrauli-Gurgaon Highway.