According to data issued by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), the National Capital Region experienced a slight break from suffocating pollution on Wednesday as air quality improved to the “very poor” category and the Air Quality Index (AQI) remained at 349.
Although a number of monitoring stations in the nation’s capital continued to register AQI levels near the hazardous zone, the dense smog that had enveloped the area seemed to have somewhat subsided.
With an AQI of 355, Noida was the second most polluted city in the nation according to data collected at 6:58 a.m.
Gurugram scored 316, Ghaziabad 309, and Greater Noida 344, all of which were in the “very poor” range.
Delhi had a minimum temperature of 8.8 degrees Celsius, which was 1.3 degrees over average, and a maximum temperature of 23.2 degrees Celsius, which was 2.5 degrees above the seasonal average, according to the India Meteorological Department.
Wednesday is expected to have a minimum temperature of about 9 degrees Celsius and a maximum temperature of about 19 degrees Celsius, with the potential for mild fog conditions during the day, according to the Met Department.
Additionally, it forecast that minimum temperatures in northwest and central India would gradually drop by 2 to 4 degrees Celsius over the course of the following 24 hours, with no significant changes anticipated after that.
Delhi is expected to follow a similar pattern, with a minimum temperature of about 7 degrees Celsius starting on Thursday.
The 24-hour average AQI was 412 in the severe category at 4:00 p.m. on Tuesday, a day after the capital continued to be shrouded in a dense grey cloud.
Compared to an AQI of 373, which was reported in the extremely poor category at the same time the day before, this was a significant decline.
Five of Delhi’s forty operational air quality monitoring stations reported severe-plus AQI levels exceeding 450.
Nehru Nagar at 465, Mundka at 457, Chandni Chowk at 453, Okhla at 452, and Jahangirpuri were among them. Up to 26 stations were still classified as serious.
Data from the CPCB’s SAMEER program indicates that the remaining monitoring stations throughout the city reported extremely bad air quality.
With an AQI of 412 on Tuesday, Delhi had the second-worst air quality in the nation, behind neighboring Noida, which had the highest AQI of 426.
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