The residents of Delhi on Tuesday as soon as once more woke to dense fog and bone-chilling chilly that additionally hit flight and rail operations, leaving hundreds of passengers ready for hours on the airport and railway stations.

According to the India Meteorological Department (IMD), the town’s Palam(VIDP) and Safdarjung Airports recorded visibilities inside 500 metres within the morning, whereas round 30 flights departing from Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA) have been delayed, and 17 flights have been cancelled as a result of low visibility amid dense fog, information company ANI reported citing the airport officers.

The climate company mentioned a fog patch could be seen over the northern and north-eastern states with low visibility areas recorded within the airports located in these states.

“Layer of fog is seen from Punjab to northeast India across Haryana, North MP, UP, Bihar and West Bengal at 0530 hrs IST. The patches of fog are also seen along the east coast of India as shown in the attached Satellite Imagery,” the IMD mentioned in a publish on X.

“Airports visibility data shows the following visibilities in dense to very dense fog conditions: Varanasi 00m; Agra 00m; Gwalior 00m; Jammu 00m; Pathankot 00m; Chandigarh 00m; Gaya 20m; Prayagraj 50m; Tejpur 50m; Agartala 100m; Vijaywada 100m; Bagdogra 100m,” it added.

The passengers have been going through issue on the airport over lengthy delays and cancellations of flights. “My flight was about to depart at 8:40 am but it is now scheduled to depart at 10:30 am…The reason they have given is mainly due to weather & fog…,” a passenger shared his expertise at IGI airport.

On Monday, 5 flights have been diverted and over 100 flights have been delayed on the Delhi airport as a result of adversarial climate circumstances.

Several passengers have been left stranded at New Delhi Railway Station as round 30 trains together with Rani Kamalapati- Hazrat Nizamuddin Vande Bharat and Howrah-Delhi Rajdhani Express have been working late as a result of dense fog engulfing the nationwide capital and coldwave circumstances.

The minimal temperature was recorded at 5 levels Celsius on Tuesday whereas it dipped to a season’s low of three.3°C on Monday. The chilly waves and fog will seemingly prevail over the following few days because the IMD issued an orange alert over Delhi for Tuesday and Wednesday. The capital metropolis clocked a most temperature of 19.7°C on Monday.

Kuldeep Srivastava, scientist at IMD, mentioned no vital change within the climate is predicted over the following 48 hours, with the minimal prone to hover in the same vary.

“An orange alert has been issued for cold wave conditions to continue. We will also continue to see dense to very dense fog in the early hours, which can impact flights, trains and road travel,” he mentioned.

Meanwhile, the air high quality within the nationwide capital was recorded within the “severe” class on Tuesday with the Air Quality Index (AQI) recorded at 401 in Anand Vihar space as per Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB). On Sunday, the Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM) invoked Stage 3 of measures below the Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP) to curb the air pollution ranges.

On Monday, visibility was recorded as ‘zero for the primary time this winter season in Sri Ganganagar in Rajasthan, Patiala, Ambala, Chandigarh, Palam, Safdarjung (New Delhi), Bareilly, Lucknow, Bahraich, Varanasi, Prayagraj, and Tezpur, as per the climate division.

(With inputs from companies)