NEW DELHI: Thick blanket of fog covered parts of Delhi on Monday morning after the visibility dropped to zero at Palam station from 4.30am to 8.30am. This was the first time this winter when the visibility touched zero due to dense fog. Safadarjung, the capital’s base station, saw moderate fog with visibility of 300m in the morning.
Kuldeep Srivastava, scientist at IMD said, “As the easterly winds blew for two days, it caused an increase in moisture level causing dense fog. The wind direction changed from north westerly to easterly on Sunday afternoon, but moisture level went up in the past two days.”
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IMD has forecast dense fog for Tuesday and moderate for Wednesday. On Monday, the minimum temperature was 12 degrees Celsius, three notches above normal, while the maximum was 28.2 degrees Celsius, four degrees above normal, at Safdarjung station.
The Met official said both maximum and minimum temperatures were likely to stay above normal this week. The minimum is expected to hover around 11-12 degrees in the next five days, and may go up to 13° Celsius on December 12, while the maximum is likely to remain around 26-27° C.
Delhi is expected to receive very light rain on December 11.
Meanwhile, Delhi’s air quality remained in the higher end of ‘very poor’ category with an overall Air Quality Index of 400 on Monday, according to the data shared by CPCB.