Poison disappears! Heavy rain makes NCR breathable…?
Heavy rain and strong winds in Delhi-NCR once again cleared the sky here. In the last few days, the weather suddenly changed and during the last two days, it rained so much in delhi that most of the NCR area was submerged. Delhi's air quality fell to 52 on friday (September 13), which is the lowest this season. Now it has come in the satisfactory category. Talking about saturday (September 14), there has been a lot of improvement in the air Quality Index (AQI) in different areas of NCR. Today Noida's AQI was recorded at 46 and Ghaziabad's AQI at 34, which comes in the good category.
pollution outside Delhi-NCR
Delhi's air is very polluted, due to which the Meteorological Department has also issued alerts many times. On friday, Gurugram's AQI was 69, which is the best in the last few days. The rain and strong winds in delhi NCR for the last few days have driven the pollution out of the city, making the air here breathable.
delhi receives more than normal rainfall
delhi crossed the annual and seasonal rainfall average in the early days of september and the total rainfall exceeded 1,000 mm, which is much more than normal, while on friday the cleanest air so far this year was recorded. On friday, 54 mm of rain was recorded in Palam of the city, while the primary weather station at Safdarjung recorded 30.9 mm of rain in three hours between 2.30 pm and 5.30 pm. With this, the total rainfall of the capital has reached 1,000 mm and the monsoon is still active.
Adverse weather events are decreasing in the national capital as weather experts have said that delhi usually receives about 650 mm of rainfall during the entire monsoon season. According to official data, the rainfall figure in delhi has also exceeded the monthly average. In september, 125.8 mm rainfall was recorded which is 55 percent more than normal. In contrast, in september 2023, there was less rainfall than average. During this period only 82.7 mm rainfall was recorded which is 33 percent less than the normal amount.
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