Cold waves grip Delhi & Odisha: Air, train services affected

New Delhi: The dense fog continues to grip northern India. The situation seemed to have worsened on Friday morning with the fall in temperature, which led to delay of several train and flight services. Infact, many flights had to be cancelled due to excessive fog on Friday morning. As many as 13 international and 13 domestic flights, arriving and departing from Delhi, got delayed due to foggy weather while two domestic flights have been cancelled so far. At least 54 trains were delayed and 12 were rescheduled due to poor visibility and other operational reasons. The meteorological department has predicted that the nation will witness an 'above normal' winter this season. Not just the national capital, but the cold wave conditions unabated in many parts of Odisha as well, despite marginal fall in temperature in some areas, while Phulbani in Kandhamal district remained the coldest place in the state where the temperature was recorded at 5.6 degrees Celsius. Kandhamal remained the coldest zone in the state, as the district headquarter town of Phulbani recorded a minimum of 5.6 degrees Celsius. The mercury stood at 8 degrees Celsius at picturesque Daringibadi in the mountainous district, the MeT department here said. Bhubaneswar recorded a minimum temperature of 15 degrees Celsius, marginally lower than 15.7 degrees Celsius recorded on Wednesday, it said. The minimum temperature dropped below 10 degrees Celsius in at least eight places in the state.