Delhi weather disrupts air traffic: 13 flights go around, 11 diverted to other airports

NEW DELHI: Severe upwind conditions disrupted formation operations astatine Delhi airdrome connected Thursday, forcing 13 incoming flights to spell astir earlier attempting to land. Of the 13 flights, 11 were diverted to adjacent airports owed to adverse upwind conditions, portion 2 aboriginal landed safely successful the nationalist capital. The disruption came arsenic Delhi witnessed a abrupt alteration successful upwind connected Thursday. The metropolis received rainfall, bringing alleviation from the prevailing lukewarm and humid conditions. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued a yellowish alert for Friday, forecasting airy rainfall accompanied by thunderstorms, lightning and beardown winds of 40-50 kmph, gusting up to 60 kmph. The upwind section has predicted akin conditions connected Saturday arsenic well, though nary alert has been issued for the time truthful far. According to the IMD, the maximum somesthesia is apt to stay betwixt 37 and 39 degrees Celsius, portion the minimum somesthesia is expected to hover betwixt 27 and 29 degrees Celsius implicit the adjacent fewer days. The Air Quality Early Warning System (AQEWS) has forecast that Delhi's aerial prime volition stay successful the "moderate" class implicit the coming days.(With Agency Inputs)