Ghaziabad, Greater Noida and Noida recorded "poor" air quality while Faridabad recorded "moderate" air quality.
Business
Standard : The national capital on Monday witnessed a misty
morning with the minimum temperature recorded at 10.5 degrees
Celsius, a notch below the season's average as the air quality
remained 'poor'.
"The
sky will remain mainly clear becoming partly cloudy during the day
with shallow fog and mist in the morning," an India
Meteorological Department (IMD) official said.
The
humidity at 8.30 am was 90 per cent. The maximum temperature was
likely to hover around 27 degrees Celsius.
Six
areas in the national capital recorded "very poor" quality
air while 21 areas recorded "poor" air quality, according
Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) data.
The
PM2.5 level (particles in the air with a diameter of less than 2.5
micrometres) was recorded at 109 and the PM10 level was recorded at
218, it said.
Ghaziabad,
Greater Noida and Noida recorded "poor" air quality while
Faridabad recorded "moderate" air quality, the CPCB data
said.
According
to the System of Air
Quality and Weather Forecasting And Research (SAFAR), the overall
air quality of the national capital was recorded in the 'poor'
category.
On
Sunday, SAFAR said the air quality in the city will oscillate between
"poor" and "very poor" till Wednesday.
Sunday's
maximum temperature settled at 27.2 degrees Celsius, while the
minimum temperature was recorded at 10.4 degrees Celsius, both a
notch above the season's averages.
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