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Delhi battled toxic fumes connected Sunday (December 14, 2025) arsenic the air prime slipped into the 'severe’ category with a speechmaking of 459, according to the Central Pollution Control Board.
A heavy furniture of smog blanketed the metropolis overnight, leaving radical gasping for air.
As per the CPCB, an Air Quality Index (AQI) betwixt zero and 50 is considered 'good', 51 to 100 'satisfactory', 101 to 200 'moderate', 201 to 300 'poor', 301 to 400 'very poor' and 401 to 500 'severe'.
On the upwind front, the minimum somesthesia settled astatine 8.2 degrees Celsius, 0.4 notch beneath the season's average, and the maximum somesthesia is apt to hover astir 24 degrees Celsius.
The comparative humidity was 100 per cent astatine 8.30 am, the IMD said.
In airy of the deteriorating aerial prime successful the nationalist capital, the Delhi Directorate of Education connected Saturday directed each schools to behaviour classes for students up to Class IX and XI successful a hybrid mode The Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM) has invoked Stage-IV actions nether the Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP) with contiguous effect to curb further worsening of aerial contamination levels successful Delhi-NCR.
