New Delhi: For the third consecutive day on Friday, the air high quality in Delhi continued to be in ‘extreme’ class at a number of stations throughout the nationwide capital, owing to unfavourable meteorological and local weather circumstances.
The air high quality at Aya Nagar plummeted to ‘extreme’ class with PM2.5 at 455 and PM10 at 400 or ‘very poor’ whereas CO reached at 103 or ‘reasonable’, as per the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) at 4 p.m.
At Bawana station, the PM 2.5 reached at 423, within the ‘extreme ranges’’ whereas the PM 10 was at 339 or ‘very poor’. The AQI at ITO additionally remained in ‘extreme’ class with PM2.5 reaching at 448 and PM10 at 352, or ‘very poor’. The CO was recorded at 104 or ‘reasonable’.
The PM2.5 at Punjabi Bagh additionally reached 414, within the ‘extreme’ class whereas PM10 was at 276 or ‘very poor’ and NO was at 113 or ‘reasonable’. The air high quality at Jahangirpuri air high quality monitoring station additionally entered into ‘extreme’ class with PM2.5 at 429 and PM10 412.
The PM2.5 at Okhla Phase-II was recorded at 491 and PM10 at 438 — each within the ‘extreme’ class. The NO2 was at 137 and CO was at 109, within the ‘reasonable’ ranges.
The air high quality at Mandir Marg station was additionally in ‘extreme’ class with PM 2.5 at 418 and PM 10 at 352 or ‘very poor’. At Mundka, the AQI remained within the ‘extreme’ class with PM2.5 at 449 and PM10 at 352 or ‘very poor’.
The AQI between zero and 50 is taken into account ‘good’; 51 and 100 ‘passable’; 101 and 200 ‘reasonable’; 201 and 300 ‘poor’; 301 and 400 ‘very poor’; and 401 and 500 ‘extreme’.
However, the AQI monitoring station at Dwarka sector 8 recorded PM2.5 at 350 or ‘very poor’ and PM10 at 212, within the ‘poor’ class.
