The IGI airport experienced dense fog with visibility ranging between 50 and 100 metres from 12.30 am to 6.30 am, which improved and currently the visibility is 300 metres at 8 am today.
Several flights were delayed at Delhi International Airport due to dense fog and low visibility. A few flights were also cancelled due to severe fog conditions in several parts of the country, Flight Information Display Board (FIDB) at Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport showed.
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The IGI airport experienced dense fog with visibility ranging between 50 and 100 metres from 12.30 am to 6.30 am, which improved and currently the visibility is 300 metres at 8 am today, India Meteorological Department (IMD) mentioned in a tweet while adding that Runway Visual Range (RVR) is between 600-1200 metres.
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According to the weather forecast agency, very dense fog is when visibility is between 0 and 50 metres, between 51 and 200 metres is dense, between 201 and 500 metres moderate, and between 501 and 1,000 metres shallow.
Several flights were also delayed and a few were cancelled due to the prevailing fog.
“I arrived from Bahrain and my (connecting) flight is delayed by one hour,” a passenger at Delhi’s IGI airport said.
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Dense fog prevails in parts of the country
People in Delhi woke up to a foggy Thursday morning with the minimum temperature settling at 6.6 degrees Celsius, one notch below the season’s average, the weather department said.
The Indian Meteorological Department has issued a yellow alert for moderate to dense fog at isolated places in the city for the next two days.
According to an official release by the IMD, ‘very dense fog’ was observed in isolated parts of Punjab, Haryana, West Rajasthan and Bihar at 5.30 am on Thursday.
Similar heavy fog was also reported in isolated parts of Delhi, West Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand, Odisha and Assam while moderate fog was observed in isolated parts of Sub-Himalayan West Bengal and Sikkim, as per IMD.
