Weather Today: IMD issues warning of heavy rainfall in these states; Delhi AQI remains ‘very poor’ | Today’s news
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has predicted heavy rainfall in South India and the Western Himalayan region. It said isolated heavy rain is likely to occur over Tamil Nadu on November 10.
The IMD has also forecast isolated heavy rainfall/snowfall over parts of Kashmir Valley on November 12 and 13, saying “scattered to fairly widespread rainfall/snowfall is likely over the western Himalayan region under the influence of a western disturbance”.
In Delhi, the IMD has forecast partly clear skies on Tuesday.
“Partly cloudy skies. Light fog at most places during morning hours. Maximum and minimum temperatures over Delhi likely to be in the range of 27°C to 29°C and 14°C to 16°C respectively. Minimum temperature will be near normal (-1.5°C to 1.5°C) at most places and maximum (-1.5°C to 3°C) will be below normal at most places. Delhi,” he said. IMD.
Isolated heavy rainfall is also likely over the Andaman and Nicobar Islands during the 10th-14th. on November and over Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram and Tripura on November 11, the IMD said.
Delhi Air quality
Delhi’s air quality index, according to CQAM, remained in the ‘very poor’ category at 311. It was recorded at 344 at 4 pm on Monday compared to 376 reported at the corresponding time on Diwali (Sunday).
Delhi witnessed its most polluted Diwali in five years. However, the severity was likely to be worse than official figures showed, as several monitoring stations went down during the peak period of firecracker use in the capital on Sunday evening, according to PTI.
AQI (air quality index) readings from private agencies actually painted a much more dire picture than the official figures, with most parts of Delhi-NCR reporting extremely hazardous levels of air pollution, leading experts to question the government’s figures.
Meanwhile, the AQI recorded an air quality reading of 637 in Delhi on Monday morning, classifying it as “hazardous”. The platform also reported that the city’s AQI peaked at 2,283 after Diwali.
The discrepancies in the readings have brought the monitoring network, data availability and variations in measurement parameters and averaging methods used by government and private agencies into the spotlight — though not for the first time.
