Delhi on Wednesday recorded a maximum temperature of 40.2 degrees Celsius, 0.7 notches above the season’s average, the IMD said.
The city registered a minimum temperature of 23.3 degrees Celsius, 2.1 notches below the season’s average. The relative humidity was 22 per cent at 5.30 pm, while at 8.30 am it was at 58 per cent, the weather office added.
Delhi’s Air Quality Index (AQI) stood at 141, in the ‘moderate’ category, at 4 pm, according to Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) data.
An AQI between zero and 50 is considered ‘good’, 51 and 100 ‘satisfactory’, 101 and 200 ‘moderate’, 201 and 300 ‘poor’, 301 and 400 ‘very poor’, and 401 and 500 ‘severe’. PTI SSJ SSJ OZ OZ