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Fog continues to disrupt flight-train schedule
LAHORE, Dec 27 : Fog continued to play havoc as it disrupted almost all the domestic and international flights besides delaying arrival and departure of all the upcountry trains in Lahore and other southern parts of the Punjab province.
The bad weather also caused road accidents in various parts of the province as the vehicles moved at a low speed.
The weather experts forecast light rain in next 24 hours which could bring relief from the foggy weather in the provincial metropolis. They said the fog would stem down after the cloudy weather in various parts of the province. They said Multan, Rawalapindi, Nawab Shah, Faisalabad, Sahiwal and Multan were under the spell of fog which started on December 20.
The Met Office had forecast a few thunderstorm/rain in Lahore, Rawalpindi and Gujranwala divisions while cloudy weather was forecast in Sargodha, Faisalabad, Bahawalpur, Multan and Dera Ghazi Khan divisions. Maximum temperature was recorded 22.5 degree while minimum temperature was 01.5 degree. Relative humidity in the morning was 91 per cent while in the evening it was 39 per cent.
The Met Office experts said that at 8:00 pm Monday the visibility at Allama Iqbal International Airport was 4 kilometre which was reduced to 500 meter to 600 meter in the wee hours of Tuesday.
Lahore-Delhi flight PK-270 was to take off at 1400 hours but it could fly at 0635 hours while Lahore-Dubai flight PK-203 could take off at 0421 hours instead of its scheduled time of 1615 hours. Lahore-Karachi flight PK-303 was scheduled to take off at 11:00 hours but it could fly at 1245 hours. Lahore-Karachi flight PK-305 was to take off at 1800 hours but it could fly at 1955 hours. Lahore-Karachi flight PK-307 was to take off at 2200 hours but it was cancelled due to inclement weather. Lahore-Karachi flight PK-405 was to fly at 0445 hours but it could take off at 1200 hours while Lahore-Karachi flight PK-315 was to take off at 0830 hours but it could fly at 1240 hours.
Lahore-Islamabad flight PK-356 took off at 1235 hours instead of its scheduled time of 0800 hours. Lahore-Islamabad flight PK-388 was scheduled to take off at 2000 hours but it could take off at 2020 hours. Lahore-Islamabad flight PK-688 was to take off at 1400 hours but it flew at 1535 hours. Lahore-Multan flight PK-385 was scheduled to take off at 0930 hours but it flew at 1155 hours while Lahore-Peshawar flight PK-391 was to take off at 1530 but it took off at 0525 hours.
Lahore-Quetta flight PK-323 took off at 1212 hours instead of its scheduled time of 1000 hours.
Yesterday, almost all the domestic and international flights took off late against their scheduled time. Lahore-Amsterdam flight PK-765 took off at 1415 hours instead of its scheduled time of 0915 hours.
Lahore-Damam flight PK-201 took off at 2055 hours instead of 2045 hours scheduled time while Lahore-Dubai flight PK-209 took off at 1340 hours instead of at 1130 hours.
Lahore-Muscat flight PK-229 was to take off at 2130 hours but it could flew at 2220 hours. Lahore-Karachi flight PK 405 which was scheduled to take off at 0230 hours was cancelled due to inclement weather.