Air in Gurugram still ‘poor’, set to worsen by mid-week Gurgaon news | Tech Reddy

Gurugram: A steady breeze continues to sweep pollutants away from NCR, the city’s air quality on Sunday improved marginally to 282 from the previous day’s 286, though both readings still fell in the ‘poor’ category.
Meteorologists said this partial relief was due to winds of 8 km per hour that are blowing pollutants even as farm fires continue to burn across Punjab, Haryana, UP and Rajasthan.

“Currently the region is witnessing northwesterly winds bringing cold air, but we are yet to witness the full cycle of winter. Wind speed is still good (8 to 10 km/h) which is dispersing pollutants in the atmosphere,” the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said on Sunday. ) an official said.
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With air quality better than expected, neighboring Delhi announced that the ban on plying of diesel vehicles that do not comply with BS-VI emission norms will be lifted on Monday.
Clearer-than-usual skies are not here to stay, according to meteorologists.
The System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting and Research (SAFAR) said on Sunday that surface winds between 10 and 20 kilometers per hour will help disperse pollutants over the next two days. However, a drop in temperature will help pollutant build up in the atmosphere again from Wednesday.
The air quality index is likely to remain ‘poor’ or ‘upper end of poor’ on November 14 and 15, but from November 16, due to a drop in temperature, the AQI will again fall into the very poor category”, said the Haryana State Pollution Control Board (HSPCB).
“Wind speed will gradually calm down in the coming days, making it difficult for pollutants to disperse,” the IMD official added.
The IMD has also predicted a drop in temperature over the next few days. “The temperature is expected to drop by two to three degrees as the western depression is not over and cold air from the mountains will slowly take its grip on the region. We are already witnessing cold nights. There is no chance of rain this week,” the official said.
Gurugram recorded a minimum temperature of 13.4 degrees Celsius and a maximum of 27.7 degrees Celsius on Sunday. The daytime average 24-hour AQI was ‘Poor’ at monitoring stations at Vikas Sadan (243), Goalpahari (276) and Teri Gram (297). At Sector-51 station, it was 314 (very bad).
An analysis by SAFAR found that straw burning emissions contribute 24% to PM2.5 pollution in Delhi-NCR.
Haryana recorded 3,111 farm fire incidents between September 15 and November 13, with the highest number in Fatehabad (656), Kaithal (614), Jind (407), Kurukshetra (296), Karnal (286) and Ambala (286). 212), according to satellite data collected by NASA and collected by the Indian Agricultural Research Institute. In neighboring Punjab, 45,319 Active Farm Locations (AFL) were identified during this period. Other NCR cities also recorded ‘poor’ air days on Sunday. The average AQI was 272 in Faridabad, 230 in Ghaziabad and 231 in Noida. In Delhi, air quality has dropped to ‘very poor’, with a reading of 303.