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NEW DELHI: Delhi woke up nether a heavy broad of fog connected Thursday, with visibility plunging crossed ample parts of the metropolis and the National Capital Region (NCR) arsenic aerial prime stayed successful the ‘very poor’ category.
The wide Air Quality Index (AQI) stood astatine 372 astatine 7am, according to information from the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB).A station-wise investigation showed that 29 monitoring stations recorded ‘very poor’ aerial quality, portion 7 slipped into the ‘severe’ bracket. Anand Vihar emerged arsenic the worst-hit location, logging an AQI of 421, CPCB information from the SAMEER app showed. Under CPCB norms, an AQI of 0–50 is classified arsenic ‘good’, 51–100 ‘satisfactory’, 101–200 ‘moderate’, 201–300 ‘poor’, 301–400 ‘very poor’, and 401–500 ‘severe’.The Air Quality Early Warning System has warned that aerial prime is apt to stay successful the ‘very poor’ class implicit the adjacent 6 days.Officials attributed the sustained contamination levels to unfavourable meteorological conditions, including a debased ventilation scale of beneath 6,000 quadrate metres per 2nd and anemic upwind speeds of nether 10 kmph, which hinder the dispersion of pollutants. On Tuesday, the metropolis recorded an AQI of 388, a marginal betterment implicit Monday’s ‘severe’ speechmaking of 401.
Weather conditions remained acold arsenic well. According to the India Meteorological Department (IMD), the minimum somesthesia astatine Safdarjung and Ayanagar was recorded astatine 6.4 degrees Celsius, astir 0.4 degrees beneath the seasonal average. The maximum somesthesia is expected to hover astir 23 degrees Celsius, with dense fog apt to persist done the day. Other stations reported akin chill, with Palam signaling a minimum of 7.7 degrees Celsius, Lodhi Road 6.8 degrees, and the Ridge 7.8 degrees.
For New Year’s Day, the IMD has forecast a mostly cloudy entity with the anticipation of airy rainfall implicit the nationalist capital. Meanwhile, a caller investigation by the Centre for Research connected Energy and Clean Air (CREA) has recovered that Delhi remained the astir polluted metropolis successful the NCR successful 2025, followed by Ghaziabad and Noida. While the yearly mean PM2.5 attraction successful Delhi showed a diminution compared with past year, the polluted-season mean betwixt October and December roseate somewhat implicit 2024 levels. The survey noted that PM2.5 levels astatine each 40 monitoring stations successful Delhi were astatine slightest 1.8 times — astir treble — the prescribed yearly standard. Of the 29 cities successful the NCR, lone 14 had PM2.5 information sum exceeding 75% successful 2025. The remaining 15 cities, each located successful Haryana — including Faridabad, Gurugram, Sonipat, Panipat and Karnal — had inadequate monitoring coverage, underscoring persistent gaps successful aerial prime surveillance crossed the region.
