The air quality in the national capital has slipped into “hazardous” from “severe” category this morning, after the festival of Diwali.
Proceeding with its upward pattern, the city’s air quality list, which remained at 382 at 4 pm yesterday, entered the serious zone around 8 pm as low temperature and wind speed permitted the accumulation of pollutants.
The concentrarions of Particulate Matter (PM) 2.5 remained at 999 for every cubic meter at Jawaharlal Nehru stadium in the city on Friday morning – against the WHO’s recommended safe restriction of 25.
The adjoining urban cities of Gurgaon (423), Faridabad (424), Noida (431) and Ghaziabad (442) additionally recorded ‘extreme’ air quality bursting cracker increasing after 9 pm.
Even after the Delhi government’s complete ban on firecrackers, including the green ones, many people were seen bursting crackers, adding to the deterioration of the air quality.
Inhabitants of Lajpat Nagar in South Delhi, Burari in North Delhi, Paschim Vihar in West Delhi and Shahdara in East Delhi revealed occurrences of firework blasting as right on time as 7 pm. A generous plunge in bursting crackers in the evening appeared to be a break from tradition.
Individuals from mant parts of the city and its rural areas complained of irritated throat and watery eyes, as a layer of brown haze, the principal scene this season, waited over the locale.
Meanwhile, the Haryana government has additionally forced a restriction on the use and sale of any sort of firecrackers in 14 of its districts in NCR, while controls were placed in different parts.
According to the Center-run System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting And Research (SAFAR), the air quality isn’t probably going to improve until Sunday evening (November 7). The improvement would, nonetheless, simply change in the ”Very Poor” classification.
Specialists said the air quality deterioration was because of negative meteorological conditions – quiet breezes, low temperature and low blending stature – and a harmful mixed drink of discharges from fireworks, stubble copying and neighborhood sources.
However, earlier on yesterday, the city announced its first scene of mist which brought down visibility at the Indira Gandhi International Airport and the Safdarjung Airport to the scope of 600-800 meters toward the beginning of the day.
The capital’s 24-hour normal air quality list (AQI) remained at 382 on Thursday, up from 314 on Wednesday. It was 303 on Tuesday and 281 on Monday.
An AQI somewhere in the range of 0-50 is considered ‘satisfactory’, 51-100 ‘good’, 101-200 ‘moderate’, 201-300 ‘poor’, 301-400 ‘very poor’, and 401-500 ‘severe’.
As per SAFAR model predictions, stubble burning share might increment to 35% on Friday and 40% on Saturday with the breeze heading to northwesterly.
Northwesterly breezes carry smoke from farm fires in Punjab and Haryana towards Delhi.
Relaxation is likely from the evening of Sunday however, AQI will vary inside the ‘very poor’ range, the air quality forecast agency said.
