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Delhi's aerial prime continued to deteriorate connected Saturday (October 18, 2025), remaining successful the "poor" class for the 5th consecutive day, with 9 monitoring stations falling successful the reddish portion of the "very poor" class arsenic contamination levels spiked up of Deepavali.
According to the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), the nationalist superior recorded an Air Quality Index (AQI) of 268 astatine 4 p.m., placing it successful the "poor" category.
Within the NCR region, Ghaziabad recorded a "very poor" AQI of 324, portion Noida and Gurugram remained successful the "poor" class with AQIs of 298 and 258, respectively.
Out of the 38 monitoring stations successful the capital, 9 reported aerial prime successful the "very poor" category, with immoderate locations inching towards the "severe” zone.
Anand Vihar recorded the highest AQI astatine 389, followed by Wazirpur (351), Bawana (309), Jahangirpuri (310), Okhla (303), Vivek Vihar (306), Dwarka (310), and Siri Fort (307), according to information from the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB).
According to 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".
A akin aerial prime forecast has been issued for the coming days by the Air Quality Early Warning System for Delhi.
Transport emissions remained the largest contributor to Delhi's aerial contamination connected Saturday, accounting for 15.6 per cent of full emissions, based connected information from the Decision Support System.
On the upwind front, the maximum somesthesia successful Delhi was recorded astatine 33.5 degrees Celsius, 0.9 notch supra normal, portion the minimum somesthesia settled astatine 19.6 degrees Celsius, 1.2 notches supra normal.
The IMD has forecast a wide entity for Sunday (October 19), with the maximum somesthesia apt to interaction 33 degrees Celsius and the minimum astir 19 degrees Celsius.
