With a cloudy sky and low visibility, the National Capital witnessed a slightly dark day on Saturday. While the maximum temperature was recorded around 24.5 Degree Celsius, the advisory report on Particulate Matters (PM) in Delhi air by System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting and Research (SAFAR) was observed to be poor.
According to the India Meteorological Department the state of visibility and the chills of cold will remain same for the next two days.
Ravinder Vishen, In charge Regional Weather Forecasting Centre, IMD told The Pioneer that the visibility was less than one Kilometer in Delhi and NCR including Punjab and Haryana and would continue to remain same for next 48 hours. The PM 10 on SAFAR real time air quality data was 302.6 while PM 2.5 was 124.8.
“The present state of visibility would remain same for next 48 hours. Poor visibility conditions will continue to prevail for West UP, Punjab and Haryana. It is going to improve slightly from next month onwards. Although shallow fog, mist and smog conditions will continue, the intensity will reduce from what we are experiencing from the last four days,” he said, adding that during this period, partly cloudy to mainly clear sky will prevail. “Due to no sunny sky, the day temperature would fall between 24 to 25 degree Celsius and minimum temperature will remain between 12 to 13 degrees Celsius,” he added.
A senior IMD official said that presently the fog condition was taking place due to the winds coming from the Bay of Bengal which brought moisture to the atmosphere. “It is due to the moisture that fog persists. The winds from the Bay of Bengal were a reason for it,” he said.