{"id":226927,"date":"2023-10-25T00:19:18","date_gmt":"2023-10-24T18:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=226927"},"modified":"2023-10-25T00:19:18","modified_gmt":"2023-10-24T18:49:18","slug":"delhi-records-maximum-temperature-of-32-4-deg-c-air-quality-in-poor-category","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2023\/10\/25\/delhi-records-maximum-temperature-of-32-4-deg-c-air-quality-in-poor-category\/","title":{"rendered":"Delhi records maximum temperature of 32.4 deg C, air quality in &#8216;poor&#8217; category"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">New Delhi, 24 Oct: The maximum temperature in Delhi settled at 32.4 degrees Celsius on Tuesday while the air quality improved marginally but remained in the &#8216;poor&#8217; category. The national capital recorded a minimum temperature of 16.1 degrees Celsius, a notch below normal, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The relative humidity stood at 44 per cent at 5:30 pm, it said. Delhi&#8217;s 24-hour Air Quality Index (AQI) stood at 220 at 11 am. It came down to 216 at 9 pm, according to Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) data. (PTI)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">An AQI in the range of 0-50 is considered &#8216;good&#8217;, 51-100 &#8216;satisfactory&#8217;, 101-200 &#8216;moderate&#8217;, 201-300 &#8216;poor&#8217;, 301-400 &#8216;very poor&#8217;, 401-500 &#8216;severe&#8217; and above 500 &#8216;severe plus&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Monday, the AQI was 263.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On Sunday, Delhi&#8217;s air quality turned &#8216;very poor&#8217; (313) for the first time since May, mainly due to a drop in temperature and wind speed, which allowed pollutants to accumulate.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Delhi last recorded &#8216;very poor&#8217; air quality on May 17 when the AQI was 336. (PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi, 24 Oct: The maximum temperature in Delhi settled at 32.4 degrees Celsius on Tuesday while the air quality improved marginally but remained in the &#8216;poor&#8217; category. The national capital recorded a minimum temperature of 16.1 degrees Celsius, a notch below normal, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said. The relative humidity stood at 44 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-226927","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-national"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}