Cold wave grips Jammu, fog disrupts air-rail traffic

Jammu: Jammuites today wake up with a dense fog cover surrounding the city and its outskirts leading to low visibility, sudden fall in the temperature and intensification of the cold wave in the entire region. Infact it was for the first time today this year when the people felt the `heat’ of the cold.
Most parts of the Jammu region especially the plain ones remain gripped with the fog and it was only in the late afternoon hours the situation was improved.
The train and airline services also disrupted due to the poor visibility and many trains and flights were running late comparing to their normal timings adding to the inconvenience to the passengers especially the pilgrims at Jammu Railway Station, official sources told News Agency of Kashmir.
The traffic on roads including the national highway went on a snails speed during the morning hours resulting to jams and difficulties to the daily commuters.
Official sources said that the visibility during the wee hours was less than fifty feet. However, the things improved at around 10 AM.
It was reliably learnt that all the five flights between Jammu to Srinagar and Delhi to Srinagar operating in the fore-noon were delayed due to the poor visibility. “All the five flights were delayed due to the low visibility”, official sources said adding, “The last flight to take off from Jammu airport was Spice Jet from Jammu to Delhi at 4:30 PM instead of its schedule departure of 12:30 AM”, sources said.
22/12/08 News Agency of Kashmir

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Categories: Airports Dec 2008