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Smog adjacent Akshardham.
(Express/Abhinav Saha)
With upwind conditions turning unfavourable arsenic beardown acold winds began hitting the plains of North India, contamination levels spiked to the astir hazardous levels this play Sunday. Adding to the woes, the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, successful its regular bulletin, has forecast aerial prime to beryllium successful the ‘severe’ oregon ‘severe+’ class for the adjacent six days arsenic highly unfavourable meteorological conditions for the dispersal of pollutants volition continue.
On Sunday, the Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM) imposed GRAP Stage IV soon aft the mean Air Quality Index (AQI) of 441 (‘severe’ category) reported astatine 4 pm, worsened to 457 by 7 pm. Every aerial prime monitoring presumption successful the Capital — barring a fewer for which information was unavailable — reported terrible contamination levels with AQI greater than 400 arsenic of 10 pm.
The IMD’s upwind inference Sunday stated that pitchy watercourse winds of up to 100 knots (185 kmph) prevailed implicit North India.
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) issued an orangish alert for Monday arsenic smog oregon dense to precise dense fog conditions are “very likely” to prevail successful the greeting hours. IMD officials Sunday stated that temperatures are apt to spot a gradual dip successful the adjacent 5 days implicit a bulk of the areas successful the northwest plain region.
By Sunday night, precise dense fog was reported astatine Palam, according to IMD. As a result, visibility implicit Palam airport, which was 900 m astatine 7 am, dropped drastically to 150 m by 11 pm.
The IMD’s upwind inference Sunday stated that pitchy watercourse winds of up to 100 knots (185 kmph) prevailed implicit North India. These are fast-flowing constrictive bands of beardown winds that scope up to speeds implicit 320 kph. The upwind improvement implicit the bluish plains tin pb to the subsidence of acold aerial conditions successful the region.
Westerlies with upwind speeds of 10-16 kmph prevailed. The combined operation of westerlies and stubble burning increases the PM 2.5 contamination load. As a result, according to information by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), the 24-hour mean PM 2.5 levels crossed 300 micrograms per cubic metre — 5 times the nationalist prescribed modular — for the archetypal clip this play successful Delhi.
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