Over 150 flights were delayed at Delhi's Indira Gandhi International (IGI) airport, four were diverted and at least six were cancelled, even as the sun came out in parts of the city post noon. At least 11 trains were also delayed by over one hour on Sunday morning.
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has predicted that similar weather will prevail on Monday, with dense to very dense fog likely to cover the Capital.
"Visibility became dense at 2:30 am, dropping to 100 metres and at 3 am, it was zero. It remained zero till around 9 am, before lifting to 50 metres at 9:30 am and subsequently up to 200 metres by 10:30 am," said Kuldeep Srivastava, scientist at IMD, adding that Delhi was seeing very dense surface-level fog now, with upper-level fog largely missing.
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