Dense fog disrupts flight operations in Delhi, 22 trains delayed

Dense fog and severe cold conditions continued to hamper flight and train movements to and from the national capital on Friday morning causing inconvenience to passengers reported news agency ANIThe dense fog disrupted flight operations in Delhi and the arrival of nearly 22 passenger trains to Delhi was delayed by up to 6 hours or more reported ANIAs per the India Meteorological Department IMD the visibility was recorded as low as 50 metres at around 530 am on Friday in isolated regionsThis included parts of Punjab West Rajasthan Haryana Delhi Tripura Uttarakhand East Uttar Pradesh Bihar Jharkhand Odisha and East RajasthanHowever as per IMD the visibility at Delhis Palam airport improved from zero at 430 am today to 50 metres at 5 am and further improved to 150 metres at 630 amAs on Friday at 530 am very dense fog was observed in many parts of Punjab in isolated parts of West Rajasthan dense fog was observed in many parts of Haryana Chandigarh and Delhi and in isolated parts of East Rajasthan and TripuraAlso moderate fog was observed in isolated parts of Uttarakhand East Uttar Pradesh Bihar Jharkhand and Odisha on Friday morningAs many as 22 Delhibound trains are running behind schedule following the dense fog conditions in many parts of the country reported ANIAccording to Northern Railways five trains namely KhajauraoKurukshetra Express PuriNew Delhi Purushottam Express HyderabadNew Delhi Express Rani KamlapatiNew Delhi Bhopal Express and KamakhyaDelhi Junction are delayed by around 6630 hours reported ANIAt least seven trains are expected to arrive late by around 2245 hoursThis included AmritsarNanded Express RewaAnand Vihar Express MuzaffarpurAnand Vihar Express VascoNizamuddin Express AmritsarMumbai Express JammutawiAjmer Pooja Express and ManikpurNizamuddin Express reported ANIA delay of around 45 minutes is expected on the arrival of the ChennaiNew Delhi Express In addition to these as many as nine trains are running behind schedule of around 1145 hours the railways said reported ANIThe longdistance trains namely SaharsaNew Delhi Vaishali Express BhagalpurAnandvihar Express RajendranagarNew Delhi Express BanarasNew Delhi Express AmbedkarnagarKatra ChennaiNew Delhi Express FerozpurMumbai Express BikanerDelhi Sarai Rohilla Express and IslampurNew Delhi Magadh Express are among those delayed reported ANIThe minimum temperatures in many parts of north India were recorded in the range of 36 degree Celsius while parts of Delhi Uttar Pradesh Rajasthan north Madhya Pradesh and Bihar saw a rise in minimum temperatures ranging between 710 degree Celsius on Friday morningAs per the IMD no significant change in minimum temperatures is expected over Northwest India during the next 24 hours and a rise by about 2 degree Celsius is expected in the next seven days reported ANIDense fog and low visibility affected several flight operations in Delhi consecutively for the fifth day of the weekSeveral passengers complained of delayed arrival of flights at Delhi airportWith inputs from ANI