{"id":7038,"date":"2019-12-31T07:00:26","date_gmt":"2019-12-31T07:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=7038"},"modified":"2019-12-31T07:00:27","modified_gmt":"2019-12-31T07:00:27","slug":"coldest-day-for-delhi-in-over-100-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/coldest-day-for-delhi-in-over-100-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Coldest day for Delhi in over 100 years"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Delhi woke up to a bone-chilling weekend as the minimum\ntemperature that the city recorded on stood at 2.4 degrees Celsius, making it\ncoldest day of the season. Dense fog enveloped the city reducing visibility and\naffecting air traffic and vehicular movement in the streets. The mercury even\nplunged to below two degrees Celsius in some areas with the Lodhi Road\nObservatory recording a low of 1.7 degrees Celsius.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/current-affairs-quiz-2019-daily-gk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Daily Current\nAffairs Quiz 2019<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hundreds of flights from the Indira Gandhi International\nAirport (IGIA) had to be cancelled or were delayed as the coldest day in\nDecember in more than a hundred years, wrapped India\u2019s capital in a thick\nblanket of fog. The dense fog also hit other transport with a delay in as many\nas 23 trains coming to Delhi. Poor visibility also hit road traffic with\nseveral reports of accidents. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delhi woke up to a bone-chilling weekend as the minimum temperature that the city recorded on stood at 2.4 degrees Celsius, making it coldest day of the season. Dense fog enveloped the city reducing visibility and affecting air traffic and vehicular movement in the streets. The mercury even plunged to below two degrees Celsius in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":7039,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[832],"tags":[77],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-7038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-december-2019","tag-delhi-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7038"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7040,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7038\/revisions\/7040"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7038"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=7038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}