Visibility Level Dips Below 500
With the arrival of winter season, the capital city surges with incessant pollution levels in the city. Delhi witness’s fog in September, visibility level dips below 500 in the city.
Areas such as Ring Road, Airport, Sadar Patel Marg, Akshardham, and Geeta Colony, were wrapped in a blanket of fog. Not just in Delhi, but the fog was also visible in the NCR region.
The Air Quality Index (AQI) dipped to the unhealthy category in Delhi. The AQI stood at 174 in the Punjabi Bagh area, while the AQI in Ghaziabad was in the moderate category on Monday morning.
Delhi, along with the NCR regions, has been witnessing heavy rainfall for the last few days. The weather will remain cloudy in the coming days with the chances of light rainfall.
However, the cloudy weather is likely to clear soon as the low-pressure area over the region moves north towards the foothill regions of Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh.
With upcoming festivals like Diwali the pollution levels surges in the city which creates a choked suffocating environment of the city. The city gets completely blurred along with that it creates severe health and hazardous issues including breathing problems, itchy eyes and other health issues.
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