Heavy fog delays flights from Delhi
Heavy fog and disruption in flight movement in and out of Delhi resulted in Sunday.
Chennai: Heavy fog and disruption in flight movement in and out of Delhi resulted in Sunday’s late night flights from there reaching the city only on Monday. Airport sources said that flights by Air India, Indigo and Jet Airways were delayed due to dense fog in Delhi.
While the officials informed people waiting to receive the passengers about the delay, the visitors were kept in the dark about arrival details.
“We were forced to wait the whole night at the airport. It was frustrating,” said a visitor, who was at the airport to receive his relatives from Delhi. Meanwhile, Spicejet operated an additional flight to Delhi from Chennai at 1.50 pm on Monday to ferry all the stranded passengers.
A Spicejet official said that the special flight accommodated 40 Spicejet passengers and 80 others booked on Indigo and Jet Airways.
Next: Rains elude TN once again
Rains elude TN once again
Chennai: The low-pressure system that formed over the Bay of Bengal once again failed to bring rainfall to Tamil Nadu. While cyclonic systems disappointed the coastal state during the northeast monsoon season, the depression caused near the southern Bay in early January gave weathermen some hope.
But it too partly fizzled out over Sri Lanka and moved southwest into the Gulf of Mannar as a well-marked low-pressure system. However, the Met officials are still hopeful that south coastal Tamil Nadu may receive some rainfall on Tuesday.
“The system did not behave as per our outlook. We expected the depression to cross over Nagapattinam and bring some rains to even Chennai. But we have not received rains even over the regions close by the system,” said Dr Y. E. A. Raj, deputy director general of meteorology, Regional Meteorological Centre, Chennai.
According to him, the lower level circulation was cut off from the upper level circulation and so the intensity of the depression was reduced. “We may still get some rains in south coastal Tamil Nadu,” he added.
Met bulletins continued to warn fishermen from venturing into the sea as the conditions would be rough along and off south Tamil Nadu and adjoining areas.