{"id":58115,"date":"2024-11-23T05:13:43","date_gmt":"2024-11-23T05:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/?p=58115"},"modified":"2024-11-23T05:13:45","modified_gmt":"2024-11-23T05:13:45","slug":"delhis-air-quality-deteriorates-to-severe-with-aqi-reaching-420","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/23\/delhis-air-quality-deteriorates-to-severe-with-aqi-reaching-420\/","title":{"rendered":"Delhi&#8217;s Air Quality Deteriorates to &#8216;Severe&#8217; with AQI Reaching 420"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>New Delhi, Nov 23 :<\/strong> Delhi&#8217;s air quality plunged back into the &#8216;severe&#8217; category on Saturday morning, with the Air Quality Index (AQI) soaring to 420. The minimum temperature was recorded at 11.4 degrees Celsius.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Out of the 38 air monitoring stations in the capital, nine reported &#8216;severe plus&#8217; air quality levels, with AQI exceeding 450. Nineteen stations recorded &#8216;severe&#8217; levels between 400 and 450, while the remaining indicated &#8216;very poor&#8217; air quality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Humidity levels peaked at 97% around 8:30 AM. The maximum and minimum temperatures for the day are predicted to be 25\u00b0C and 12\u00b0C, respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The hazardous air quality in Delhi has persisted for over 20 days. It first entered the &#8216;very poor&#8217; category on October 30, remaining there for 15 days before deteriorating further into the &#8216;severe&#8217; range last weekend. Conditions worsened to &#8216;severe plus&#8217; by Wednesday, prompting widespread concern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While favorable winds briefly improved air quality on Thursday, the respite was short-lived as pollution levels began to rise again on Friday, culminating in today&#8217;s severe AQI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi, Nov 23 : Delhi&#8217;s air quality plunged back into the &#8216;severe&#8217; category on Saturday morning, with the Air Quality Index (AQI) soaring to 420.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58116,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,22],"tags":[2263,4926,1431,1032,73,1033],"class_list":["post-58115","post","has-post-thumbnail","category-latest-news","category-national","tag-air-quality","tag-aqi","tag-delhi","tag-earlypostdaily","tag-india","tag-latestnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58115"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58117,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58115\/revisions\/58117"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earlypostdaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}