Delhi-NCR has been battling severe pollution for the last many days, thick layer of smog engulfing the city for many consecutive days. Rains were much awaited as they were the only hope of bringing relief from the ongoing health emergency.
Much to respite, rains finally made an appearance on Tuesday, washing away the prevailing pollutants. In fact, scattered rains continued on Wednesday morning over several parts of Delhi-NCR.
This has resulted in improvement in air quality index across many parts of the city. However, the decrease in pollution was a marginal one as rains were not widespread and intensity was limited to light over most of the places. In wake of this, pollution is still persisting over Delhi-NCR, with many regions still in ‘poor’ to ‘very poor’ category.
Moving further, we expect rains to now fade away and winds would be light. Therefore, pollution will once again grip the national capital. Air Quality Index might slip into 'severe' again on Wednesday.
According to Skymet Weather, the Western Disturbance over Jammu and Kashmir is expected to move away by tomorrow. This system was instrumental in restricting the flow of northwesterly winds. Now, as the system clears the region, we expect dry and cold north-westerlies to commence from November 16. Not only this, winds would now pick up the speed.
With this, Delhi might take a sigh of relief as the pollution levels are expected to decrease up to a certain extent till November 18.
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