AGENCY
New Delhi: With day temperature plunging to 15.4 degrees Celsius and a layer of shallow fog enveloping the Delhi, leading to a delay in running of 103 trains and change in schedule of 27 others.
Railway officials said all the trains were running behind schedule by several hours, while 27 others required to be rescheduled owing to poor visibility. However, there was no fresh cancellation of services announced.
“The 34 services, which were announced as cancelled between the period December 17 and January 15, only remain cancelled. There is no fresh cancellation,” a railway official said.
Flight operations were normal, officials at Indira Gandhi International Airport said, adding that the “weather condition did not have any impact on flight operations as visibility was fine”.
As per the official of the India Meteorological Department (IMD), maximum temperature settled at 15.4 degrees Celsius as against yesterday’s 24.5 degrees Celsius. The minimum temperature was recorded at 11.5 degrees Celsius, while the visibility was recorded 500 metres, considered as low for the period.
Normally the sun was not visible throughout the day, but the IMD official said that on Sunday the Sun appeared at 7:30 AM and sunset time was recorded as 17:32 PM.
The weatherman has further said that the maximum humidity was recorded as 98 per cent, whereas minimum was 91 per cent. The IMD department has forecast that the maximum and minimum would hovered around 21 degrees Celsius and 10 degrees Celsius respectively.
