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Delhi’s aerial prime remained successful the “very poor” class connected Friday (November 7, 2025) and is apt to proceed to beryllium astatine the aforesaid level, with publication from stubble burning predicted to see a crisp rise.
The publication of stubble burning successful neighbouring states to PM 2.5 (a main pollutant) successful Delhi connected Friday (November 7, 2025) was 8.6%, according to the Union Ministry of Earth Sciences data. This is predicted to emergence to 30.91% connected Saturday and 31.24% connected Sunday.
“The aerial prime is precise apt to beryllium successful the Very Poor class from 08.11.2025 to 10.11.2025. The outlook for the consequent 6 Days: The aerial prime is apt to beryllium successful the Very Poor category,” said the Central government’s ‘Air Quality Early Warning System for Delhi’.
Meanwhile, Delhi’s 24-hour mean air quality index (AQI) was 322 (very poor) at 4 p.m. connected Friday, up from 311 (very poor) a time earlier, as per the Central Pollution Control Board’s (CPCB) regular authoritative bulletin, which is considered arsenic a day’s authoritative AQI. A higher AQI means an summation successful air pollution.
An AQI between 51 and 100 is “satisfactory”, 101 and 200 is termed arsenic “moderate”, 201 and 300 “poor”, 301 and 400 “very poor”, and 401 and 500 “severe”, arsenic per the CPCB.
Every winter, air pollution spikes successful Delhi-NCR and galore parts of the larger Indo-Gangetic Plains (IGP), mainly owed to meteorological factors specified arsenic little upwind velocity and a driblet successful temperature. And contamination from stubble burning during October-November and bursting of firecrackers worsens it.
