Cold Wave grips Delhi-NCR: Flight, train operations hit amid dense fog, airport issues advisory

IMD has predicted dense fog in Delhi today, with maximum and minimum temperatures expected to range between 17 and 8 degrees Celsius, respectively.

Jan 3, 2025 - 12:30
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Cold Wave grips Delhi-NCR: Flight, train operations hit amid dense fog, airport issues advisory

New Delhi: A thick layer of dense fog blanketed Delhi and the adjoining NCR predicament as a frigid wave gripped parts of North India on Friday morning. In response to the India Meteorological Division, the capital city recorded 9.6 levels Celsius at 5:30 am nowadays, with the air quality plunging from ‘unlucky’ to ‘very unlucky.’ The weather department has predicted dense fog in Delhi nowadays, with maximum and minimal temperatures anticipated to fluctuate between 17 and eight levels Celsius, respectively.

Flight, Practice Operations Affected

Diverse airlines, including SpiceJet, Indigo, and Air India, encountered points main to flight delays. At Delhi airport, incoming flights had been customarily delayed by five minutes, and outgoing ones by 11 minutes, as famend by FlightRadar24. SpiceJet talked about that flights heading to or departing from Amritsar and Guwahati confronted disruptions as a consequence of bad weather. In the meantime, IndiGo issued a shuttle stare, in particular declaring routes impacting Delhi, Amritsar, Lucknow, Bengaluru, and Guwahati.

When planning your journeys, it’s clever to double-test your flight times, as airlines non-public warned passengers that flights would be cancelled if visibility is unlucky.


Practice products and providers to and from Delhi are operating in the inspire of time table as a consequence of route adjustments. The India Meteorological Division has issued a warning for dense fog anticipated to envelop Delhi, Lucknow, Bengaluru, Amritsar, and Guwahati this Friday. Identical predictions lengthen to areas in Rajasthan take care of Kota and Bundi, Punjab’s Amritsar and Gurdaspur, and areas in Haryana comparable to Kurukshetra and Ambala. Moreover, light rain coupled with snow is anticipated in parts of Himachal Pradesh and Ladakh.

Delhi AQI This day

In response to the Central Pollution Regulate Board, the AQI modified into as soon as recorded at 348 in Delhi nowadays at 6 am.

An AQI between zero and 50 is considered ‘good,’ 51 and 100 ‘passable,’ 101 and 200 ‘realistic,’ 201 and 300 ‘unlucky,’ 301 and 400 ‘very unlucky,’ and 401 and 500 ‘excessive.’

In the meantime, because the temperature dips, homeless americans in the city increasingly more more rely upon evening shelters.

Refuge To Homeless Of us

The Delhi Urban Refuge Enchancment Board (DUSIB) has also set up 235 pagoda tents to give shelter to homeless americans. Night shelters non-public been set up in several areas of the national capital, including AIIMS, Lodhi Aspect motorway, and Nizamuddin flyover.

In response to the chilly weather, residents of the capital had been considered gathering spherical bonfires, while others took shelter in evening homes as temperatures continued to fall.

On Friday, North Indian states continued to face harsh frosty weather stipulations. Uttar Pradesh’s capital Lucknow, the temperature is recorded at 8 levels Celsius at 3.30 am. The local administrations non-public set up non everlasting shelter homes for the homeless americans. UP’s Aligarh americans had been considered taking refuge in definitely the kind of shelters.

In Jammu and Kashmir’s capital Srinagar, the temperature modified into as soon as recorded at -1.3 levels Celsius at 5.30 am.

In the meantime, airline service Indigo on Thursday issued a shuttle advisory for its flight operations in Srinagar because the predicament modified into as soon as experiencing snowfall impacting flight schedules.

“We wish the snowfall may perhaps design discontinuance a brief cease, allowing us to set particular soft travels for you but again. Preserve warm and preserve told,” the airlines talked about.

In Rajasthan’s capital Jaipur, the temperature modified into as soon as recorded at 10.2 levels Celsius at 5.30 am nowadays.

Rajasthan Chief Minister Bhajanlal Sharma visited the frosty weather shelter homes set up attain Gandhinagar Railway Build of dwelling here on Thursday evening to design discontinuance stock of the preparations.

(with ANI inputs)

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