Dense fog led to delayed train schedules in Delhi

Wednesday, December 27, 2023

Thick fog caused severe detours to train and airline services in Delhi on Wednesday due to the difficult weather. Commuters have experienced inconvenience due to the limited visibility, which has affected the schedule of roughly 110 flights and many trains.

Smothered by a layer of fog, New Delhi was less visible, and the railway network had operating difficulties. The result was delays for passengers at different train stations.

Fog has covered the nation’s capital amid dropping temperatures, causing reduced visibility that has impacted train and airline schedules.

Prior to this, the Northern Railways stated that 14 trains in the northern zone were impacted by Tuesday’s thick fog in the nation’s capital. The Chief Public Relations Officer told the media that 14 trains relating to the Northern Zone of Indian Railways were affected due to fog or less visibility.

There was almost no vision on Wednesday morning as a thick blanket of fog covered sections of Delhi-NCR. In the national capital region, the unrelenting cold wave continued, with lows as low as 7 degrees Celsius. North India as a whole is experiencing extremely cold weather; therefore, Delhi is not the only place experiencing extreme cold.

Significantly, CAT III designates a class of sensor landing systems that permits aircraft to land in low visibility environments like fog, snow, and rain.

The intense fog in the nation’s capital could have negative effects on people’s health, the IMD told the media about the concerns about fog. The clog-stricken situations contain particulate matter and other pollutants and in case exposed, it gets lodged in the lungs, clogging them and decreasing their functional capacity, which increases episodes of wheezing, coughing and shortness of breath.

 India Gate, Dhaula Kuan, Barapullah, and the Delhi-Noida border region were all completely covered in thick fog when viewed in the morning.

Fog and poor visibility caused delays for several trains coming into and going out of New Delhi.

A layer of dense fog is still present over portions of northwest India and adjacent central India, including Punjab, Haryana, and Chandigarh, according to satellite images from 6:45 AM, according to the IMD.

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