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Foggy Morning In Delhi, Visibility Drops To 400 Metres

🍨 Fog cloaked Delhi on Wednesday morning, lowering visibility to 400 metres and affecting road and rail🌼 traffic.

Weather: Fog in Delhi
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A Railways spokesperson said around 18 trains are running late by﷽ one-and-a-half to five hours.

Operations at the Delhiꦛ airport remain𝕴ed normal, an official said.

O🗹n Tuesday night, three flights were returned or diverted to the Delhi airport due to bad weather ⛄in Chandigarh, Varanasi and Lucknow, he said.

The Palam airport logged the lowest visibility level of🌺 400 metres at 2:30 am. Visibility droppe♐d to 500 metres at the Safdarjung airport at 5:30 am, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said.

According to the IMD, very dense fog is when visibility is between 0 and 50 metres,♔ between 51 and 2𒅌00 metres is dense fog, 201 and 500 metres is moderate fog, and 501 and 1,000 is shallow fog.

The Safdarjung Observatory, th💃e primary weather station in Delhi, recorded a minimum temperature of 7.1 degrees Celsius, a notch below normal. The maximum temperature is likely to settle around 22 degrees Celsius, the IMD said.

The minimum and maximum temperatures are likely to drop to 5 degrees Celsius and 20 degrees Celsius in the🐲 next few days, it said.