Relief for Delhi as IMD predicts rise in minimum temperatures next week

Winds with a speed of around 10 to 20 kmph are likely to continue over parts of the national capital for the next three days.

Another western disturbance is likely to affect northwest India from February 2 onwards, according to an update from the IMD on Friday morning. The western disturbance could bring rainfall or snowfall to the Western Himalayan region, and rainfall is likely over the plains. The possibility of rain or a thunderstorm in Delhi is on the forecast for February 3, and cloudy skies are likely to return on February 2.

On Thursday, the air quality was in the ‘poor’ category with an AQI of 262. The AQI is likely to remain in the ‘poor’ category on Friday and for the next two days, going by the forecast. Moderate wind speed which disperses pollutants has been preventing the AQI from deteriorating further.

While the AQI recorded at the Anand Vihar monitoring station remains in the ‘severe’ category (416), the 24-hour average AQI at other monitoring stations on Friday morning was in the ‘very poor’ or ‘poor’ categories. At RK Puram, for instance, the AQI was 236, in the ‘poor’ category, while it was 333, in the ‘very poor’ category, at Jahangirpuri.