New Delhi (NVI): Delhi’s air quality turned out to be in ‘moderate’ category today as the Air Quality Index (AQI) was recorded at 159, according to System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting And Research (SAFAR).
However, the air quality will marginally deteriorate to the “Moderate to Poor category” on Monday and Tuesday.
The national capital’s AQI has dropped to 159 due to high surface winds that dispersed atmospheric pollutants, according to the Ministry of Earth Science’s air quality monitor, SAFAR. The city had recorded an AQI of 239 (‘poor’ category) yesterday.
“The overall Delhi air quality is in the Moderate category as forecasted. Surface winds are high and southwesterly and forecasted to change in direction towards easterly. AQI is forecasted to further improve and in the Moderate to Satisfactory category for March 7 and marginally deteriorate to Moderate to Poor category on 8 and March 9,” SAFAR said in its bulletin.
As per SAFAR data, the concentrations of the particulate matter (PM) with a diameter of 10 and 2.5 microns stood at 181 and 78, both falling under the ‘moderate’ category respectively.
An AQI within the range of 0-5 is considered as ‘good’, 51-100 is ‘satisfactory’, 101-200 is ‘moderate’, 201-300 is ‘poor’, 301-400 is ‘very poor’ and 401-500 is considered ‘severe’.
-ARK
