Lagatar24 Desk
New Delhi, Nov 3: Delhi residents on Thursday awoke to a heavy layer of haze as the national capital and surrounding areas’ air quality once more fell into the severe category.
At 10 am, the national capital’s Air Quality Index (AQI) was 418 (in the “Very Poor” category), and at 7 am, it was 408 (in the “Severe” category). The decline in air quality is attributable to unfavorable weather conditions with decreased wind speed and a sharp increase in farm fire events.
Notably, an AQI of 401 to 500 is considered serious.
Delhi reels under 'severe' air quality; current AQI at 418
There are many policies, but no implementation. Asthmatic patients face many issues. We should hold ourselves accountable, along with the politicians. People are suffering due to stubble burning, too, say locals pic.twitter.com/9CpwXyGdV5
— ANI (@ANI) November 3, 2022
Many policies exist, but they are not put into practise. Numerous problems confront asthmatics. Along with the politicians, we should be answerable to ourselves. Locals tell news agency ANI that stubble burning is also harming people.
According to data supplied by SAFAR (System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting and Research) India, Gurugram’s AQI remained at 318 and remained in the “extremely poor category,” while Noida’s AQI, which is a part of the national capital region, dropped to 393, also in the “very poor” category.
Between 0 and 100, the AQI is regarded as good, between 100 and 200, as intermediate, and between 200 and 300, as poor. An AQI of 300 to 400 is considered to be extremely poor. Farm fire smoke is transported to the national capital region by transport-level winds, which blow in the troposphere and stratosphere, the lowest two layers of the atmosphere.
