As thick fog engulfs Delhi, 23 trains are running late
According to Railway authorities on Sunday, up to 23 trains are running late in Delhi as a consequence of the area’s poor visibility caused by thick fog.
Indian Railways reports that the Howrah-New Delhi Poorva Express and the Azamgarh-Delhi Kaifiyat Express are delayed by five hours each, while the Puri-New Delhi Purushottam Express is delayed by almost seven hours.
The Saharsa-New Delhi Vaishali Express, the Allahabad-New Delhi Prayagraj Express, and the Rajendranagar-New Delhi Sampoorn Kranti are among the approximately five trains that are four hours late.
While the Padmavat Express is over three hours late, the Sealdah-New Delhi Rajdhani is 1.45 hours late.
The Bhopal-Nizamuddin Express is running six hours late, the Durg-Nizamuddin S Kranti is running three and a half hours late, and the Pune-Nizamuddin Duronto is operating two hours behind schedule, according to the Railways.
In the meantime, Sunday is expected to bring dense to very dense fog over most of Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh, and Delhi, numerous locations over Uttar Pradesh, a few locations over Uttarakhand, isolated locations over the northern portions of Rajasthan, and isolated locations over Jammu and Kashmir and the lower division of Himachal Pradesh. These forecasts come from the India Meteorological Department.
According to IMD, the national capital’s Safdarjung Observatory will see temperatures between 10 and 7 degrees Celsius during the first week of January 2024, marking a further drop in the mercury.
