Bhubaneswar: Traffic crawled as a thick blanket of fog covered several parts of coastal and interior Odisha Wednesday morning.
Meanwhile, the regional centre of India Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued dense fog alert for 12 districts – Khurda, Puri, Nayagarh, Cuttack, Jagatsinghpur, Jajpur, Kendrapara, Bhadrak, Keonjhar, Dhenkanal, Angul and Kandhamal. The condition will prevail till January 25, it added.
The IMD has also issued ‘yellow warning’ for January 24.
Foggy condition has been prevailing in Puri and Konark and the twin cities of Bhubaneswar and Cuttack over the past few days. Meteorological sources said that the condition would prevail till January 24 and the visibility will be around 50-100 metres.