A thick blanket of fog enveloped the national capital on Friday, hampering the train and flights services in Delhi.
The latest data compiled by Indian Railways revealed that as many as 12 trains were rescheduled after getting delayed for at least by 2 hours.
The trains Yoga Express, Anand Vihar Express, Mumbai CST Amritsar Express, and Shiv Ganga Express were delayed by two hours each, while Brahmaputra Mail, Sangam Express and Poorva Express were delayed by 2:30 hours each.
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Owing to low visibility, Purushottam Express, and Sapt Kranti Express were delayed by four and three hours respectively. Several flights were also rescheduled and diverted at Delhi airport.
Today, the minimum and maximum temperature in Delhi will hover at 7 Degree Celsius and 22 Degree Celsius.
As per the Skymet Weather, a private weather forecasting agency, dense to very dense fog is expected to make an appearance over Northern Plains January 7 onward. The intensity of fog during that time will be much more and visibility may drop down to zero.
West Uttar Pradesh, Delhi NCR, Punjab, Haryana and North Rajasthan are also likely to receive rainfall on January 5 and 6.
Apart from Delhi, the dense to very dense fog was observed at isolated places over Haryana and its surrounding regions today. West Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Coastal Andhra Pradesh were engulfed with moderate fog today.
Fog alert! (Helplines)
Visit this link for train enquiry: https://enquiry.indianrail.gov.in/ntes/index.html
Indian Railways 24 x7 customer service helpline no: 139
Skymet weather forecast, weather in India and world: https://www.skymetweather.com/
Indira Gandhi International airport helpline no: +91-011-61234567
(With ANI inputs)