GURUGRAM: Is wintry weather over? February might just be in its 3rd week but it indubitably appeared so within the NCR on Wednesday.
The maximum temperature crossed the 30-degree Celsius mark for the primary time this wintry weather and touched 31.7 levels – seven notches above customary — in Delhi. This was also the warmest day recorded this month and Met officials mentioned the maximum temperature was not going to go underneath 29 levels in the following few days. It was also the second one warmest February 21 within the remaining decade, because the capital recorded 32.4 levels Celsius on at the moment remaining year. In Gurugram, the maximum temperature on Wednesday was 30 levels Celsius.
“Mercury is prone to keep around 31 levels Celsius for the following few days, barring a slight drop on February 24 because of cloudy skies and thundery construction. The probability of rain, however, is very little as a western disturbance is going to have an effect on further up north,” mentioned Kuldeep Shrivastav, scientist at Regional Weather Forecasting Centre (RWFC).
Forecast for Thursday shows the mercury hovering over a equivalent range with the maximum and minimum temperatures prone to be 31 and 12 levels Celsius, respectively.
Warmer temperatures al-so brought with them higher air pollution. Gurugram has seen an 80% upward thrust within the concentration of PM 2.5 levels previously 72 hours, with its air quality index (AQI) touching the 304 mark (‘very poor’) on Wednesday. Delhi’s AQI was a ‘poor’ 290.
In Gurgaon, the concentration of PM2.5 greater to 159 on Wednesday from underneath 88 micrograms in step with cubic metre ahead of Monday. It was 110 micrograms in step with cubic metre on Tuesday and 108 on Monday. Residents blamed the unexpected upward thrust in air pollution levels on burning of waste on Monday and Tuesday.
Experts mentioned upward thrust in temperature will have to have reduced the PM2.5 concentration. “However, that has now not been the case. While low wind pace is an element which greater PM2.5 levels, a number of man-made components, together with waste burning and vehicular air pollution, can’t be ignored,” mentioned Debjani Ghosh, an environmental engineer. HSPCB officials blamed low vertical wind pace for the upward thrust in air pollution levels.
The maximum temperature crossed the 30-degree Celsius mark for the primary time this wintry weather and touched 31.7 levels – seven notches above customary — in Delhi. This was also the warmest day recorded this month and Met officials mentioned the maximum temperature was not going to go underneath 29 levels in the following few days. It was also the second one warmest February 21 within the remaining decade, because the capital recorded 32.4 levels Celsius on at the moment remaining year. In Gurugram, the maximum temperature on Wednesday was 30 levels Celsius.
“Mercury is prone to keep around 31 levels Celsius for the following few days, barring a slight drop on February 24 because of cloudy skies and thundery construction. The probability of rain, however, is very little as a western disturbance is going to have an effect on further up north,” mentioned Kuldeep Shrivastav, scientist at Regional Weather Forecasting Centre (RWFC).
Forecast for Thursday shows the mercury hovering over a equivalent range with the maximum and minimum temperatures prone to be 31 and 12 levels Celsius, respectively.
Warmer temperatures al-so brought with them higher air pollution. Gurugram has seen an 80% upward thrust within the concentration of PM 2.5 levels previously 72 hours, with its air quality index (AQI) touching the 304 mark (‘very poor’) on Wednesday. Delhi’s AQI was a ‘poor’ 290.
In Gurgaon, the concentration of PM2.5 greater to 159 on Wednesday from underneath 88 micrograms in step with cubic metre ahead of Monday. It was 110 micrograms in step with cubic metre on Tuesday and 108 on Monday. Residents blamed the unexpected upward thrust in air pollution levels on burning of waste on Monday and Tuesday.
Experts mentioned upward thrust in temperature will have to have reduced the PM2.5 concentration. “However, that has now not been the case. While low wind pace is an element which greater PM2.5 levels, a number of man-made components, together with waste burning and vehicular air pollution, can’t be ignored,” mentioned Debjani Ghosh, an environmental engineer. HSPCB officials blamed low vertical wind pace for the upward thrust in air pollution levels.
Winter takes a break as mercury hits 30°C, pollution shoots up in Gurugram
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February 22, 2018
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