Cold wave conditions abated in Delhi on Tuesday due to a fresh western disturbance affecting northwest India, even as a dense layer of fog lowered visibility to just 50 metres, affecting road and rail movement. As many as 100 flights have been affected while 40 trains were delayed by an hour to five-and-a-half hours due to the foggy weather.
Satellite images showed a dense layer of fog persisting over vast swathes of north India, extending from Punjab to Bihar across Haryana, Delhi and Uttar Pradesh. The Safdarjung observatory, Delhi's primary weather station, recorded a minimum temperature of 6.4 degrees Celsius as against 3.8 degrees Celsius on Monday. The maximum temperature in the Capital stood at 18.7 degree Celsius, a notch lower than the normal for this time of the year on Tuesday.
"Cold wave conditions have abated from the plains in northwest India. No cold wave is predicted in the region for the next four days. However, dense to very dense fog and cold day conditions will prevail over many parts of Punjab, Haryana, Delhi and Uttar Pradesh on Wednesday and will gradually abate thereafter," the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said. Light drizzle is also expected in the capital on Thursday.