Visibility hit as fog envelops Capital

People in Delhi woke up to another foggy

morning on Sunday with a thin layer of fog engulfing parts of the national capital, reducing the visibility and disrupting traffic movement. According to the India Meteorological Department, visibility of 500 metres was recorded at Delhi’s Palam area at 5.30am on Sunday. In a series of tweets, the meteorological department said that dense to very dense fog was recorded at a few places over Punjab and at isolated places over Haryana and West Uttar Pradesh. As many as seven trains were delayed due to the fog, a Railways officer said. “Seven trains are running late on January 30, due to low visibility and other operational reasons,” said chief public relations officer of Northern Railways. The minimum temperature in the Capital, meanwhile, settled at 8.6 degrees Celsius, two notches below the season’s average, officials said.