New Delhi | Jagran News Desk: The prevailing chilling conditions in North India owing to the fresh snowfall in Jammu-Kashmir and Himachal Pradesh has led to a foggy morning in the national capital disturbing the movement of flights and trains. Due to the bad weather conditions and fog, around 760 flights were delayed and around 19 flights were cancelled, while over 100 trains remained up to two hours behind schedule.   

The national capital also braved a cold day with the minimum temperature settling at 6.4 degrees Celsius. Officials said visibility reduced to zero at some places in the morning affecting and train and plane services.

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"Nineteen flights were cancelled, five were diverted and 760 were delayed due to dense fog that enveloped the national capital on Friday morning," Delhi airport official said as reported by PTI.

Visibility was zero at Palam and 300 meters at Safdarjung at 5.30 am which improved later. Railway officials said over 100 trains were delayed by up to two hours. The maximum temperature today was recorded at 17.5 degrees Celsius, five notches below the season's average.

Due to low temperature and high humidity, the air quality was in the "severe" category in the morning. According to the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) data, Delhi's AQI at 8 am was at 430. The Met department has forecast "severe cold conditions" accompanied by light rain drizzle in the city for Saturday.

Some higher reaches of Himachal Pradesh received fresh snowfall on Friday with the forecast of heavy rain and snowfall till December 21. However, the minimum and maximum temperatures in the state increased by a few notches since Thursday.

Lahaul-Spiti's administrative center Keylong experienced a 5 cm snowfall followed by Gandhola witnessing 3 cm and Kinnaur''s Kalpa getting 1 cm.

The coldest place in the state was Keylong where the minimum settled at minus 6 degrees Celsius. The minimum temperature in Kalpa was 0.7 degrees Celsius.

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Famous tourist destination Manali recorded a low of 2 degrees Celsius followed by Kufri registering 4 degrees Celsius, Dalhousie at 4.3 degrees Celsius and Shimla at 6.3 degrees Celsius.

Up north, moderate snowfall began in most parts of Kashmir Friday afternoon. Twelve flights to and from the Srinagar airport were cancelled due to the bad weather conditions.

 

(With PTI Inputs)