Delhi's Air Quality Worsens; Improvement Unlikely Till Tomorrow
NDTV
The worsening of air quality in Delhi comes just three days after the city recorded its first good air quality day of the year last week.
Delhi's air quality inched towards the poor category on Monday, just three days after the city recorded its first good air quality day this year. The capital recorded a 24-hour average air quality index of 182 at 4 pm on Monday. It was 119 on Sunday, 70 on Saturday and 47 on Friday. With an AQI of 405 (severe), Anand Vihar was the most-polluted place in the capital.
Mahesh Palawat, vice president (climate change and meteorology), Skymet Weather, said a confluence of easterly and westerly winds did not let local pollutants disperse. Calm winds allowed accumulation of pollutants in the morning.
According to the Ministry of Earth Sciences' Air Quality Early Warning System for Delhi-NCR, the air quality is likely to remain in "moderate to poor" categories on Tuesday and in the poor category on Wednesday.
Calm winds are likely to prevail during night and morning hours which is unfavourable for effective dispersion of pollutants.
