As if the snow record registered in Tallinn was not enough, an unusual heavy fog covered today the sky of the Estonian capitol city creating problems to the traffic both of cars and planes.

Foto: Andres Putting - Delfi

“This is inversion fog. Warmer air comes from higher layers but it is cold near the ground,” Estonian Meteorology and Hydrology Institutes ´s weather forecast department head Merike Merilain told Eesti Päevaleht Online explaining how the situation might even last for couple of days.

Unfortunately it did not take too much to Estonian drivers to fall into some traps created by the fog and, as registered by several Estonian papers already this morning, accidents started already around 10am when within 15 minutes two of them took place in Laagna Tee – fortunately without serious injuries.

Many flight coming to Tallinn have also been forced to change their destination and land in Riga: “There are four Estonian Air planes standing side by side here” declared to Delfi Alar Varrak, the coach of Kalev basketball team.

While coming back from Moskow, the plane with Estonia’s top basketball team BC Kalev/Cramo on board tried to land three times before being sent to Riga seen the impossibility of using the lanes in Tallinn.