{"id":306120,"date":"2018-11-26T08:59:31","date_gmt":"2018-11-26T08:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=306120"},"modified":"2018-11-26T08:59:31","modified_gmt":"2018-11-26T08:59:31","slug":"delhi-air-quality-remains-in-poor-category-expected-to-turn-very-poor-in-next-few-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/delhi-air-quality-remains-in-poor-category-expected-to-turn-very-poor-in-next-few-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Delhi air quality remains in poor category, expected to turn \u2018very poor\u2019 in next few days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-306121 aligncenter\" style=\"font-size: 18.6667px;\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/delhi-300x158.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"422\" height=\"222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/delhi-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/delhi-696x368.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/delhi.jpg 697w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 422px) 100vw, 422px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">On 26 November morning Delhi woke up to a thick, pale layer of haze with the air quality remaining in the &#8216;poor&#8217; category.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to the System of Air Quality Weather Forecasting and Research (SAFAR), Delhi&#8217;s overall Air Quality Index (AQI) was recorded at 262 till 8 am, which falls under the poor category.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The SAFAR in a statement said that the air quality is expected to turn very poor in the next few days.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">At Lodhi Road, the AQI was recorded at 200 (PM 2.5 level), while at the Indira Gandhi International Airport, the AQI was 199, both in the &#8216;moderate&#8217; category.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">At Pusa, Delhi University and Mathura Road, the AQI recorded at 297, 272 and 275, respectively.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">However, in other areas like Dhirpur, Chandni Chowk and Pitampura, the AQIs dipped to very poor category and were recorded at 317, 334 and 305, respectively.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 26 November morning Delhi woke up to a thick, pale layer of haze with the air quality remaining in the &#8216;poor&#8217; category. According to the System of Air Quality Weather Forecasting and Research (SAFAR), Delhi&#8217;s overall Air Quality Index (AQI) was recorded at 262 till 8 am, which falls under the poor category. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":306121,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1961,2009,2014],"tags":[429,9898],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306120"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306122,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306120\/revisions\/306122"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/306121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}