The nationwide capital on Wednesday recorded the bottom minimal temperature of this winter season to date with the mercury dropping sharply to 4.9 levels Celsius in comparison with Eight levels Celsius yesterday. “The minimal temperature of 4.9 levels Celsius reported over Safdarjung is the bottom minimal of this winter season. The identical minimal temperature of 4.9 levels Celsius was reported final yr additionally, on 15th December,” the India Meteorological Division stated.
The bottom ever minimal temperature over the station was 0.0’ on 27th December 1930, the climate forecasting company added. The relative humidity degree at 8.30 am stood at 64 per cent whereas the mercury is predicted to settle round 23 levels Celsius.
In the meantime, air high quality in Delhi remained within the poor class on Wednesday morning, even because the readings have been nearer to the average vary. The town’s AQI stood at 207 at Eight am, down from 223 recorded a day earlier.
An AQI between Zero and 50 is assessed as ‘good’, between 51 and 100 as ‘passable’, between 101 and 200 as ‘average’, between 201 and 300 as ‘poor’, between 301 and 400 ‘very poor’, and above 400 as ‘extreme’ as per the Central Air pollution Management Board (CPCB).
Out of the 39 monitoring stations, solely RK Puram recorded air high quality within the ‘extreme’ class. Twenty-three stations reported ‘poor’ air high quality, whereas the remaining have been within the ‘average’ class, in line with the Sameer app which supplies hourly information.
