New Delhi:

Over 110 flights had been affected on the Delhi airport after dense fog shrouded north India on Wednesday morning as visibility dropped to only 25 metres, disrupting the motion of site visitors. The climate workplace issued a pink alert over “very dense fog” within the nationwide capital as chilly wave situations continued. As many as 25 trains headed to Delhi are delayed, Northern railways stated.

As roads remained engulfed in fog, a number of collisions had been reported throughout Uttar Pradesh. One individual was killed and 12 others injured after a number of autos collided on the Agra-Lucknow Expressway. In Bareilly, a dashing truck rammed right into a home close to the Bareilly-Sultanpur freeway.

#WATCH | Unnao, Uttar Pradesh: A number of autos collided on the Agra-Lucknow expressway as a result of dense fog, a number of folks sustained accidents pic.twitter.com/JhPJT0XYxp

— ANI UP/Uttarakhand (@ANINewsUP) December 27, 2023

The India Meteorological Division (IMD) predicted “dense to very dense fog situations” over Punjab, Haryana, Delhi, UP, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh. 

In Delhi, the Safgarjung observatory recorded a visibility stage of fifty metres whereas on the Safdarjung observatory close to the Indira Gandhi Worldwide Airport it dropped to only 25 metres. Nonetheless, commuters reported even decrease visibility in a number of components of the nationwide capital. 

Other than Delhi, cities in Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Punjab noticed diminished visibility as a result of dense haze. In Haryana’s Hisar and Karnal, visibility dropped to 25 metres whereas in Agra, Bareilly and Bhatinda it reached zero.

layer of dense fog over northwest & adjoning central India proceed to persist. @ndmaindia@moesgoi@DDNewslive@PIB_India@airnewsalertspic.twitter.com/MVPCRDNrCg

— India Meteorological Division (@Indiametdept) December 27, 2023

The air high quality within the metropolis additionally recorded a pointy decline after weeks of comparatively good air. The common air high quality dropped to 381, “very poor” on the Air High quality Index. 

The minimal temperature in Delhi was recorded at 7 levels Celsius whereas the utmost temperature is predicted to rise as much as 24 levels Celsius.

Based on the Central Air pollution Management Board (CPCB), Delhi’s Anand Vihar recorded a 441 AQI whereas Lodhi Highway in central Delhi recorded an AQI of 327. On the IGI airport, air high quality stood at 368. Neighbouring Ghaziabad and Noida recorded an AQI of 336 and 363 respectively. Based on the forecast, the air high quality is about to scale back even additional over the subsequent week, whereas 

Based on the climate workplace, very dense fog is when visibility is between 0 and 50 metres, between 51 and 200 metres is dense, between 201 and 500 metres average, and between 501 and 1,000 metres shallow.