There had been some moderate rainfall in various sections of Delhi, Noida, Gurugram, and the neighbouring districts of the National Capital Region on late Thursday night and early Friday. This precipitation provided much-needed relief from the hazardous air quality in the NCR.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The rain fell on Delhi at a time when the city government was preparing to use cloud seeding to create artificial precipitation on November 20\u201321 in an effort to combat the extreme air pollution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Images captured from the Kartavya Path, ITO, and the boundary between Delhi and Noida revealed light to moderate rain showers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Over and surrounding areas of numerous locations in Delhi and NCR, Sohana, Rewari, Aurangabad, Hodal (Haryana), Bijnaur, Sakoti Tanda, Hastinapur, Chandpur, Daurala, Meerut, Modinagar, Kithor, and Amroha, the Regional Weather Forecasting Centre (RWFC) predicted light intensity intermittent rainfall on Friday morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Additionally, it stated that light showers are predicted for Bhiwari, Khairthal, Alwar, Viratnagar, Nagar, Deeg, Laxmangarh, and Rajgarh in Rajasthan during the same period, and for Garhmukteshwar, Pilakhua, Hapur, Gulaoti, Siyana, Bulandshahar, Jahangirabad, Anupshahar, Shikarpur, Khurja, Pahasu, Debai, Narora, Gabhana, Jattari, Khair, Nandgaon, and Barsana in Uttar Pradesh and Bhikarpur, Khurja, Pahasu, Debai, Narora, Gabhana, Jattari, Khair, Nandgaon, and Barsana in Uttar Pradesh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) reports that on Friday morning, the average air quality index (AQI) in Anand Vihar, Delhi, dropped from 462 (severe) to moderate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Similar to this, RK Puram’s average AQI stayed in the severe category at 446, however the CPCB statistics indicated that the air quality significantly improved (to a good level) in the morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In Noida Sector-62, the minimum AQI measurement was 56 (acceptable), and the average was 425.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
An abrupt improvement in the quality of the air was also observed in Gurugram, where the average AQI remained’very poor’ at 399, while the AQI registered at 50 (excellent) around 6 am.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The AQI is divided into six categories: Very Poor (300-400), Good (0-50), Satisfactory (50-100), Moderately polluted (100-200), Poor (200-300), and Severe (400-500).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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