Rain brings relief in Delhi; AQI in moderate category
Residents of Delhi woke up to widespread rainfall on Monday morning, offering relief from the recent spell of intense heat.
Residents of Delhi woke up to widespread rainfall on Monday morning, offering relief from the recent spell of intense heat.
Residents of Delhi are currently experiencing noticeable relief from the intense heatwave that gripped the city in April.
Delhi witnessed a notable improvement in air quality on Tuesday, with the Air Quality Index (AQI) falling into the 'satisfactory' and 'moderate' categories across several monitoring stations.
While efforts to mitigate the severity of the air pollution in the Delhi-NCR have been taken over the years consistently, of late there has been a steady increase in the number of good air days with a decline in the registered 'poor' to 'very poor', and 'severe' to 'severe (+) category air days, according to Dr SD Attri, an expert on the subject.
The strong winds that have been blowing for the past several days have had a positive impact on the air quality in Delhi-National Capital Region (NCR).
Residents of Delhi continued to breathe polluted air on Thursday morning, with little relief despite a gradual rise in temperatures across the national capital.
The new standard is based on the recommendations of the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) based on studies conducted by IIT Kanpur and the Technical Committee constituted by the pollution control board.
Delhi saw a slight improvement in air quality on Sunday morning as the AQI moved into the moderate range. However, pollution hotspots and lingering smog show the capital is still far from clean air.
The Air Quality Index (AQI) in the national capital continued to remain in the ‘poor’ category on Thursday, with several monitoring stations recording levels above 300, indicating deteriorating air conditions in parts of the city.
A thin layer of smog covered several parts of Delhi-NCR on Tuesday morning, with the average Air Quality Index (AQI) across Delhi at 294, in the "poor" category, at 8 am, according to the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB).
