Smoke home Delhi gasps on seventh ‘extreme’ air day this month | India Information

NEW DELHI: The capital recorded its seventh ‘extreme’ air day this November after the Air High quality Index (AQI) rose to 401 on Wednesday – from 397, the higher finish of ‘very poor’ class, on Tuesday. Town has additionally witnessed 5 ‘very poor’ air days this month to this point, in accordance with the CPCB. Final November, there have been simply three ‘extreme’ days (AQI above 400).
Incidents of stubble burning that worsen Delhi’s air pollution surpassed the 30,000-mark this season in Punjab with 2,544 contemporary farm fires reported on Wednesday – the second highest in a single day this season.

Satellites detected 62 farm fires in Haryana and 49 in Uttar Pradesh on Wednesday. The share of stubble burning in Delhi’s PM2.5 was estimated at 23.32% on Wednesday. On this season, the best farm fires in a single day have been reported on November 5 at 3,230. Nevertheless, the best per day counts recorded in 2022 have been 3,916 on November 11 in Punjab. From September 15 to November 15, Punjab has witnessed 30,661 stubble burning counts this 12 months versus 45,464 in 2022. Throughout the identical interval, Haryana recorded 1,940 farm fires in 2023 and three,149 in 2022. In distinction, UP has seen an increase in paddy residue burning occasions throughout the identical interval from 1,457 incidents in 2022 to 2,057 in 2023.
As wind route is prone to shift from north-westerly to easterly, the contribution of biomass burning in Delhi’s PM2.5 is predicted to cut back to 11.72% on Thursday and additional to 4.74% on Friday.
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