The entire North India continues to reel under chilling cold wave conditions along with dense fog lowering the visibility and disrupting rail and air traffic in the national capital. According to a PTI report, the satellite imagery showed a dense elongated band of fog stretching from Punjab to the northeast. At 5:30 am, zero visibility was recorded in Varanasi, Agra, Gwalior, Jammu, Pathankot and Chandigarh; 20 metres in Gaya; 50 metres in Prayagraj and Tezpur; 100 metres in Agartala; 200 metres in Amritsar; and 300 metres in Gorakhpur.
Delhi's Safdarjung airport recorded a temperature of 4.8 degrees Celsius at 5:30 am on Tuesday a visibility of 50 metres at around 7 am. The city's Palam airport recorded a temperature of 7.2 degrees Celsius and a visibility of zero metres at 7:30 am. Dense fog conditions disrupted the schedules of 30 trains to Delhi from different parts of the country.
The visibility (in metres) at various places in North India on Tuesday were as follows.
Punjab: Patiala-25, Amritsar-200; Uttar Pradesh: Varanasi-00, Bahraich-25, Lucknow, sultanpur-200 each, Bareilly, Jhansi, Gorakhpur-300 each; Bihar: Gaya-20, Patna,Bhagalpur-500 each; Madhya Pradesh: Gwalior-00, Satna-50; Assam: Tezpur-50 ,Guwahati-500; Tripura: Agartala-50; Andhra Pradesh: Vijayawada-50; West Bengal: Digha, Haldia-200 each, Diamond Harbour, Kolkata/Alipore, Malda-500 each ; Delhi: Safdarjung, Palam-500 each
According to a press release by the India Meteorological Department dated January 15, 2024, dense to very dense fog conditions are likely to continue to prevail over North India during the next 3 days and dense fog thereafter. Cold day to severe cold day conditions are also likely to continue over plains of North India during next 2 days and reduction thereafter.