Fog disrupts flight operations at Indira Gandhi International Airport

Delhi skilled one among its foggiest, if heat, mornings on Friday, as visibility fell to close zero on the Indira Gandhi International Airport for probably the most a part of the morning.

“Only departure flights were disrupted between 0414 hours and 1008 hours due to RVR below the required Low Visibility Take Off (LVTO) minima”, it said.

Not only flights, train services have been also affected badly as over 50 trains were running late due to fog.

Friday’s maximum temperature was recorded at 21.4 degrees Celsius, two notches above the season’s average.

CAT-III B allows an aircraft to land in visibility as low as 50 metres.

Weather forecasting agencies have said similar conditions would prevail on Saturday with the fog likely to create more problems in the operation of flights and trains. GMR-run IGIA is the only airport in the country equipped with CAT IIIB. According to met department, humidity level in the morning was, however 100 per cent. “The skies will be mainly clear”.

The minimum temperature at 10.2 degrees Celsius was three notches above the season’s average while the maximum is expected to be around 23 degrees Celsius. 30 am. This could be the highest recorded temperature since 2005 for a dense-fog episode lasting over eight hours. The dense fog, however, cleaned the air through a process known as pollution scavenging.

Thick haze surrounded the whole northern India while three individuals died within an incident in Uttar Pradesh because of bad awareness even while mercury extended to float many steps above the standard hitting a street train and air-traffic.