Printed on: Dec 28, 2025 10:40 am IST
Delhi’s minimal temperature stood at 6.3°C on Sunday, a notch under regular. It was 7.8°C a day earlier.
Delhi’s air high quality deteriorated additional and was getting ready to the ‘extreme’ class on Sunday morning. Wind speeds remained low within the area, with a thick layer of fog seen throughout the Indo-Gangetic plains, satellite tv for pc imagery confirmed.
The town’s common air high quality index (AQI) stood at 392 (very poor) at 8am on Sunday — marginally increased than 385 (very poor) at 4pm on Saturday. It was 332 on Friday, making a gentle drop on the again of an approaching western disturbance, which has slowed down winds, whereas additionally including moisture into the air. One other western disturbance is anticipated from December 30 until January 1 — preserving comparable situations in place until the New Yr.
Knowledge from the Central Air pollution Management Board (CPCB) confirmed at the very least 20 out of the 39 lively ambient air high quality stations within the ‘extreme’ vary. The worst impacted included Shadipur (447) and Anand Vihar (445).
Although visibility dipped to zero at a number of airports throughout the Indo Gangetic plains, shallow fog was witnessed at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi Worldwide (IGI) airport, with visibility staying at 500 metres between 4.30am and eight.30am.
“Stations with zero visibility included Pathankot, Agra, Amritsar, Gwalior and Kanpur,” mentioned an IMD official.
Regardless of solely shallow fog, knowledge from the flight monitoring web site FlightRadar24 confirmed over 150 flights had been nonetheless delayed on the IGI airport.
In the meantime, Delhi’s minimal temperature stood at 6.3°C on Sunday, a notch under regular. It was 7.8°C a day earlier.
