New Delhi: Delhi-NCR is covered with dense fog on the morning of Friday, 20 December 2019, in the middle of severe cold in North India. Where it had a tremendous impact on rail, road and air traffic. Due to poor visibility, more than 750 flights were affected in Delhi, while 100 trains were running late. 19 flights at IGI Airport had to be canceled. At the same time, vehicles started crawling on the roads in the morning. As the evening progressed, the fog became thicker. On Saturday, the Meteorological Department has said the possibility of a further decrease in temperature with light rain and fog increases.
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According to the Meteorological Department, let us tell you that amid fresh snowfall in Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir, the air humidity in Delhi reached 100 percent on Friday morning. The temperature was 6.4 degrees Celsius. Due to this dense fog enveloped. The visibility at Palam Airport was zero at around 5:30 am. At 8:30 pm, Palam's visibility was around 50 meters and in Safdarjung 100 meters. It improved as the day progressed. Airport officials said that due to reduced visibility, 11 flights to different parts of the country and 8 flights to Delhi had to be canceled. Services became normal only after the opening of the season. At the same time, trains reached two to five hours late. The maximum temperature on Friday was 5 degrees below normal at 17.5 degrees Celsius.
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It has also been estimated that Delhi-NCR's pollution level reached a serious level again on Friday. Delhi's air quality index (AQI) stood at 432. Noida was the most polluted in the NCR. Its AQI 463 was recorded. AQI of Ghaziabad was at 444. AQI was 427, 420 and 306 in Greater Noida, Faridabad and Gurugram. According to CPCB, the humidity and wind speed also remained below ten km per hour. The mixing height was also at two km. Pollution stopped due to their mixed effect. There is a possibility of improvement in AQI on Saturday and Sunday.
