{"id":340075,"date":"2022-10-19T06:24:08","date_gmt":"2022-10-19T11:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=340075"},"modified":"2022-10-19T06:24:08","modified_gmt":"2022-10-19T11:54:08","slug":"delhis-air-quality-remains-poor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/delhis-air-quality-remains-poor\/","title":{"rendered":"Delhi&#8217;s air quality remains poor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Delhi on Wednesday recorded a minimum temperature of 17 degrees Celsius, a notch below the normal for this time of the year, the India Meteorological Department said.<\/p>\n<p>The maximum temperature is likely to settle around 33 degrees Celsius.<\/p>\n<p>Delhi&#8217;s air quality continued to be in the poor category for the fourth consecutive day and any improvement is unlikely over the next few days.<\/p>\n<p>The air quality index (AQI) stood at 241 at 9 am.<\/p>\n<p>At least seven out of the 35 monitoring stations in the city recorded the air quality in the &#8220;very poor&#8221; category.<\/p>\n<p>An AQI between zero and 50 is considered good, 51 and 100 satisfactory, 101 and 200 moderate, 201 and 300 poor, 301 and 400 very poor, and 401 and 500 severe.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Decision Support System of the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM), the transport sector accounted for 18.5 per cent of PM2.5 pollution in Delhi on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Early Warning System of the IITM said the air quality was likely to remain in the poor and very poor categories over the next six days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delhi on Wednesday recorded a minimum temperature of 17 degrees Celsius, a notch below the normal for this time of the year, the India Meteorological Department said. The maximum temperature is likely to settle around 33 degrees Celsius. Delhi&#8217;s air quality continued to be in the poor category for the fourth consecutive day and any [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":340076,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1961,36],"tags":[15534,429,9333],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340075"}],"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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340075"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":340077,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340075\/revisions\/340077"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/340076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}