The nationwide capital on Sunday witnessed a sunny day with the utmost temperature hovering round 32 levels Celsius. This comes two days after the Holi celebrations, throughout which Delhi noticed mild showers within the night.
On Saturday, the climate division had predicted usually cloudy skies with mild rain or drizzle on Sunday. So far as the air high quality within the metropolis is worried, it was recorded within the ‘passable’ class.
The IMD has predicted robust winds all through the day within the coming days and fewer probabilities of rain all through the week. The skies, nevertheless, are prone to stay cloudy within the coming week, and the minimal temperature is anticipated to stay 19 levels Celsius.
Based on the Fee for Air High quality Administration (CAQM), the air high quality index (AQI) was 89 at 9 am. AQI ranges are categorised as 0-50 ‘good’, 51-100 ‘passable’, 101-200 ‘reasonable’, 201-300 ‘poor’, 301-400 ‘very poor’, and 401-500 ‘extreme’.
On Saturday, Delhi’s air high quality was the cleanest it has been within the final three years on any day between January 1 and March 15, the Fee for Air High quality Administration (CAQM) mentioned.
In the meantime, Delhi’s minimal temperature on Sunday was 18 levels Celsius, 2.9 notches above the seasonal common, the India Meteorological Division mentioned.
Delhi on Saturday recorded a median Air High quality Index (AQI) of 85, which is the bottom within the final three years for the interval from January 1 to March 15.
Based on the Fee for Air High quality Administration, that is the primary day of the yr on which the AQI has managed to fall underneath the ambit of the ‘Passable’ class, that means that the index quantity stays between 50 and 100.
“In the present day, Delhi recorded a median AQI of 85, the bottom within the final three years for the interval from 01st January to 15th March. In the present day’s AQI can also be the primary day of the present yr with a ‘Passable’ AQI (AQI 51-100). Delhi has witnessed a ‘Passable’ AQI within the month of March for the primary time in 5 years since 2020,” the Fee for Air High quality Administration posted on X.
Because the winters recede, temperatures have began to soar. Ainapur Hobli village within the Kalaburagi district of northern Karnataka recorded the utmost temperature within the final 24 hours at 42.eight levels Celsius.
