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Delhi's aerial prime deteriorated to the “very poor” class connected Sunday (October 26, 2025), arsenic the mercury dropped to 15.8 degrees Celsius, the lowest recorded successful October implicit the past 2 years.
The metropolis registered an Air Quality Index (AQI) of 324, which falls successful the "very poor" category, compared to 292 a time earlier. The AQI had been "poor" the past 2 days.
Delhi's Anand Vihar recorded "severe" AQI with a speechmaking of 429, followed by Wazirpur with 400. As galore arsenic 28 monitoring stations crossed the metropolis reported "very poor" aerial prime with readings supra 300, according to information from the Sameer app of the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB).
As per the CPCB, an 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".
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The minimum somesthesia settled astatine 15.8°C, 1.4°C beneath normal, according to the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD). In October 2023, the minimum somesthesia had dipped to 15.9°C.
Delhi's humidity stood astatine 66% astatine 8.30 a.m.
The maximum somesthesia is apt to settee astir 30°C, with the IMD forecasting a chiefly wide sky, becoming partially cloudy towards the evening oregon night.
