It’s not just the smog anymore. Now it’s a volcano. A real one. The Hayli Gubbi in Ethiopia—silent for nearly 12,000 years—just blew. X was the toxic local air. And then Y followed: a massive ash cloud flew 14 kilometers high and traveled thousands of kilometers to land right here.
The timing? Late last night, the ash plumes, moving at $100-120\text{ km/h}$, hit Delhi. They came over Gujarat, Rajasthan, and then straight into the NCR airspace.
The thing is, this ash is high. It’s thousands of feet up in the atmosphere. Experts are saying it won’t totally crush the ground-level AQI—the particles are too high. But it contains sulphur dioxide, tiny bits of glass and rock. It’s a toxic haze.
Update04:
The Ash cloud from #HayliGubbi volcano that erupted y’day about to reach #Delhi & #NCR and adjoining areas of #Haryana, #Punjab and #UttarPradesh in ~10 to 30 minutes. This mostly consists of SO2 and moderate concentrations of Volcanic Ash. The plume does not possess… https://t.co/ESm1xzrJDb pic.twitter.com/IGfC97LecZ— IndiaMetSky Weather (@indiametsky) November 24, 2025
Flight Chaos: The Real Problem
The immediate impact is total flight chaos.
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The DGCA (aviation body) issued a mandatory advisory. Avoid the ash zone. Change routing. Check fuel.
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Air India went straight into lockdown. They cancelled at least eleven flights just to do precautionary checks on planes that flew through that area. Newark to Delhi, New York to Delhi, Dubai routes—all cancelled.
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IndiGo put out a message: fully prepared. But everyone is rerouting. Everyone is scrambling. You don’t mess with volcanic ash—it can melt inside jet engines and cause a total shutdown. That’s the biggest fear, let’s be real.
The plume is drifting east toward China now, and the IMD says it should clear Indian skies by 7:30pm today. But this is the new reality. We’re dealing with air quality so bad, it attracts volcanic fallout from another continent. It’s an ongoing, unbelievable event.
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