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Delhi Weather Alert: National capital wakes up to chilly morning; shallow fog in some parts

Speed News Desk 8 February 2020, 9:41 IST

Delhi Weather Alert: National capital wakes up to chilly morning; shallow fog in some parts

Delhiites wakes upto chilly morning with minimum temperature settling at 6 degree Celsius and maximum temperature recorded at 21 degree Celsius. Shallow fog engulfed some parts of the national capital, leading to 'very poor' air quality.

An AQI between 0-50 is considered "good", 51-100 "satisfactory", 101-200 "moderate", 201-300 "poor", 301-400 "very poor" and 401-500 "severe". Relative humidity at 8.30 am was 97 per cent, a Met official said.

 

 

The air quality index (AQI) at 9.37 am in Delhi was recorded at 290, Faridabad 285, Ghaziabad 313, Greater Noida 304, Gurgaon 250 and Noida was 267. Due to likely dry cold northweaterly winds over northwest India, cold wave conditions are likely in isolated parts over Punjab, Harayan, Chandigarh and Delhi during 2-3 days. 

 

 

Due to confluence between easterlies and westerlies at lower tropospheric levels, scatterd to fairly widespread rainfall/thundershowers over Vidarbha, Chhtisgarh, Gangetic West Bengal and Odisha during next 24 hours.

-PTI

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