Dense fog envelops Delhi; flights, trains delayed

Delhi woke up to the season’s first fog on Friday morning. The minimum temperature was 12 degrees, five above normal. (Mohd Zakir/HT photo)

Updated on: Jan 08, 2016 4:26 PM IST

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Delhi woke up to the season’s first fog on Friday morning. The minimum temperature was 12 degrees, five above normal. (Mohd Zakir/HT photo)

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Met officials said the dense fog was due to a combination of high humidity and low wind speed. (Sushil Kumar/HT photo)

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Low visibility delayed over a hundred flights and forced the Railways to tinker with the schedule of several trains leaving the city. (Arvind Yadav/HT photo)

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Railway officials said 56 trains were running late and the scheduled departure times of 19 others have been altered. (Arvind Yadav/HT photo)

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“Entire city is enveloped with dense fog. Travel safe Delhi,” Delhi Police tweeted on Friday morning. (Arvind Yadav/HT photo)

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The Capital is generally enveloped in a thick sheet of fog for several days in December and January. (Sushil Kumar/ HT photo)

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Girls on their way to school on Friday morning. Despite the fog, the city is going through its warmest winter in eight years. (Arvind Yadav/HT photo)

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A man clicks pictures amid dense fog in Delhi on Friday morning. (Ravi Choudhary/HT photo)

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The maximum temperature has so far hovered around 23 degree Celsius, quite high for this time of the year. (Sushil Kumar/HT photo)

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Children enjoy the cold weather amid dense fog, in New Delhi. (Ajay Aggarwal/HT photo)