{"id":347330,"date":"2024-01-15T03:25:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-15T08:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=347330"},"modified":"2024-01-16T04:36:07","modified_gmt":"2024-01-16T10:06:07","slug":"at-3-3-degrees-delhi-records-seasons-coldest-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/at-3-3-degrees-delhi-records-seasons-coldest-morning\/","title":{"rendered":"At 3.3 degrees, Delhi records season&#8217;s coldest morning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"658\" height=\"450\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/delhi-pollution-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-347249\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2024\/01\/delhi-pollution-1.jpg 658w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2024\/01\/delhi-pollution-1-300x205.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2024\/01\/delhi-pollution-1-218x150.jpg 218w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2024\/01\/delhi-pollution-1-614x420.jpg 614w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 658px) 100vw, 658px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>New Delhi : The national capital recorded the coldest morning with a minimum temperature of 3.3 degrees Celsius, four notches below the seasonal average, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Along with the bone-chilling cold, Delhi-NCR was wrapped in a blanket of fog that led to delays in 18 trains and several flights due to poor visibility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Due to the dense fog it had lowest visibility at zero in Safdarjung and Palam at 2 a.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The IMD classifies fog intensity into four types: shallow, moderate, dense and very dense fog.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The visibility ranges from 999 m to 500 m, 499 m to 200 m, 199 m to 50 m and less than 50 m, respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Indian Railways, a total of 18 trains were running late by hours due to fog and cold wave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The traffic on the roads was extremely slow as fog reduced the visibility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, several areas in Delhi were experiencing &#8216;severe&#8217; air quality, prompting the weather office to issue a red alert due to the prevailing cold and fog conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The IMD forecast indicated dense fog in Delhi until Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi : The national capital recorded the coldest morning with a minimum temperature of 3.3 degrees Celsius, four notches below the seasonal average, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said. Along with the bone-chilling cold, Delhi-NCR was wrapped in a blanket of fog that led to delays in 18 trains and several flights due to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":347249,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[15943],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347330"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347330"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":347346,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347330\/revisions\/347346"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/347249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}