Season’s worst fog in Delhi, no respite expected today
6 Jan 2014 12:04 AM GMT
The national capital experienced the season’s worst fog on Sunday evening with the maximum temperature settling one notch below average at 19.3 degrees Celsius. Similar weather is expected on Monday, the Met office said.
A met department official said: ‘Delhi experienced season’s worst fog Sunday evening after 8.30 pm. The maximum visibility at Safdarjung was 600 metres and 50 metres at the Palam airport. Runways at airport are likely to become unoperational by 10 pm.’ Monday will start with shallow fog but the sky will be mainly clear later in the day, said an official of the India Meteorological Department.
The maximum and the minimum temperatures are likely to hover around 16 and 6 degrees Celsius, respectively.
Sunday morning was moderate with the minimum temperature settling a notch above the season’s average at 7.8 degrees Celsius. The humidity was 75 percent.
A light fog enveloped the city in the morning but flights remained unaffected. Around 40 trains coming towards Delhi were running late while 10 trains were rescheduled due to fog in parts of north India, an official of the Northern Railway said.
Saturday’s maximum and minimum temperatures were recorded at 18.5 degrees Celsius (two notches below season’s average) and 6.4 degrees Celsius (a notch below the season’s average), respectively.
Meanwhile, dense fog enveloped the IGI Airport here on Sunday, disrupting the schedule of over 200 domestic and international flights and causing inconvenience to passengers.
Fog started to descend at the airport late last night but it become dense in the morning when the runway visibility at one of the runways dipped below 50 metres at one end, airport officials said.
However, the runway visibility did not drop below 150 metres at the main runway (28/10) and flights were taking off and landing on it.
The visibility kept fluctuating at the third runway which caused some delay in operations of flights from that runway, they said, adding flights were operating using various categories of instrument landing system.
Around 50 domestic and international flights were delayed from one hour to three hours due to poor visibility.
‘Some of the flights were rescheduled and got delayed due to poor weather conditions at the destinations,’ airline officials said.
During the night and early this morning, the visibility on the main runway 28 was above CAT I (550 meters) while on third runway 29, low visibility take-off operations (LVTO) were on.
A met department official said: ‘Delhi experienced season’s worst fog Sunday evening after 8.30 pm. The maximum visibility at Safdarjung was 600 metres and 50 metres at the Palam airport. Runways at airport are likely to become unoperational by 10 pm.’ Monday will start with shallow fog but the sky will be mainly clear later in the day, said an official of the India Meteorological Department.
The maximum and the minimum temperatures are likely to hover around 16 and 6 degrees Celsius, respectively.
Sunday morning was moderate with the minimum temperature settling a notch above the season’s average at 7.8 degrees Celsius. The humidity was 75 percent.
A light fog enveloped the city in the morning but flights remained unaffected. Around 40 trains coming towards Delhi were running late while 10 trains were rescheduled due to fog in parts of north India, an official of the Northern Railway said.
Saturday’s maximum and minimum temperatures were recorded at 18.5 degrees Celsius (two notches below season’s average) and 6.4 degrees Celsius (a notch below the season’s average), respectively.
Meanwhile, dense fog enveloped the IGI Airport here on Sunday, disrupting the schedule of over 200 domestic and international flights and causing inconvenience to passengers.
Fog started to descend at the airport late last night but it become dense in the morning when the runway visibility at one of the runways dipped below 50 metres at one end, airport officials said.
However, the runway visibility did not drop below 150 metres at the main runway (28/10) and flights were taking off and landing on it.
The visibility kept fluctuating at the third runway which caused some delay in operations of flights from that runway, they said, adding flights were operating using various categories of instrument landing system.
Around 50 domestic and international flights were delayed from one hour to three hours due to poor visibility.
‘Some of the flights were rescheduled and got delayed due to poor weather conditions at the destinations,’ airline officials said.
During the night and early this morning, the visibility on the main runway 28 was above CAT I (550 meters) while on third runway 29, low visibility take-off operations (LVTO) were on.
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