Dense fog hits life in Bhubaneswar & Cuttack | Bhubaneswar News
Bhubaneswar: The twin cities of Bhubaneswar and Cuttack witnessed dense fog on Tuesday causing inconvenience to residents during early morning hours and partially affecting rail and road communication.
There was, however, no official report on any train running late even as fog reduced visibility to 50 metres at some pockets.
“There was a very dense fog. I was forced to drive slowly while going to drop my children at school,” said Jatin Routray , a resident of Chandrasekharpur area here.
Similar dense fog was also reported from Gopalpur, Angul, Dhenkanal, Khurda, Kendrapada and Jagatsinghpur towns, an IMD bulletin said.
IMD said a similar trend would continue at isolated places in some districts for at least another two days.
On Wednesday dense fog warning was issued for 12 districts — Balasore, Bhadrak, Jajpur, Kendrapada, Cuttack, Jagatsinghpur, Angul, Dhenkanal, Keonjhar, Nayagarh, Khurda and Ganjam.
Manorama Mohanty, scientist and head of the regional IMD centre here, said constant increase in relative humidity level, calm winds and inflow of moisture from the Bay of Bengal supported development of dense fog in some districts.
An IMD bulletin said the prevailing trend of night temperature would see no large change during the next two days.
On Tuesday, Rourkela recorded the lowest temperature of at 12.2 degrees Celsius. The capital city recorded 17.9C.
There was, however, no official report on any train running late even as fog reduced visibility to 50 metres at some pockets.
“There was a very dense fog. I was forced to drive slowly while going to drop my children at school,” said Jatin Routray , a resident of Chandrasekharpur area here.
Similar dense fog was also reported from Gopalpur, Angul, Dhenkanal, Khurda, Kendrapada and Jagatsinghpur towns, an IMD bulletin said.
IMD said a similar trend would continue at isolated places in some districts for at least another two days.
On Wednesday dense fog warning was issued for 12 districts — Balasore, Bhadrak, Jajpur, Kendrapada, Cuttack, Jagatsinghpur, Angul, Dhenkanal, Keonjhar, Nayagarh, Khurda and Ganjam.
Manorama Mohanty, scientist and head of the regional IMD centre here, said constant increase in relative humidity level, calm winds and inflow of moisture from the Bay of Bengal supported development of dense fog in some districts.
An IMD bulletin said the prevailing trend of night temperature would see no large change during the next two days.
On Tuesday, Rourkela recorded the lowest temperature of at 12.2 degrees Celsius. The capital city recorded 17.9C.
