{"id":347693,"date":"2024-02-12T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-12T06:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=347693"},"modified":"2024-02-12T02:12:20","modified_gmt":"2024-02-12T07:42:20","slug":"delhi-records-7-3-degrees-aqi-very-poor-at-several-stations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/delhi-records-7-3-degrees-aqi-very-poor-at-several-stations\/","title":{"rendered":"Delhi records 7.3 degrees, AQI ‘very poor’ at several stations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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New Delhi : The national capital on Monday recorded a minimum temperature at 7.3 degrees Celsius, three notches below the seasonal average, the India Meteorological (IMD) Department said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Until last week, the temperature was hovering around 6 degrees, and the minimum temperature was recorded at around 7 or 8.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

IMD’s Monday forecast showed that the maximum temperature was likely to hover around 24 degrees, with the minimum at around 7 degrees again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The weather department said that there will be “partly cloudy sky” throughout the day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Air quality at 9 a.m. at several stations across the city fell under the ‘very poor’ and ‘poor’ category, unlike last week, when AQI stood at ‘satisfactory’ and ‘moderate’ category.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the Anand Vihar area, at 9 a.m., PM2.5 levels were recorded to be in the ‘very poor’ category standing at 362 and PM10 reached 402, according to the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Air Quality Index (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\n\n\n

The Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport (T3) recorded PM2.5 levels at 307, which is counted as ‘very poor’ and PM10 at 233, falling under ‘moderate’ category.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dwarka Sector 8 witnessed PM2.5 levels at 342, and PM10 was at 339.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New Delhi : The national capital on Monday recorded a minimum temperature at 7.3 degrees Celsius, three notches below the seasonal average, the India Meteorological (IMD) Department said. Until last week, the temperature was hovering around 6 degrees, and the minimum temperature was recorded at around 7 or 8. IMD’s Monday forecast showed that the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":347694,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[17933,15651,16140],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347693"}],"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=347693"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":347695,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347693\/revisions\/347695"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/347694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}