{"id":205426,"date":"2025-12-28T17:58:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T17:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/205426\/"},"modified":"2025-12-28T17:58:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T17:58:10","slug":"delhi-records-very-poor-aqi-met-issues-orange-alert-for-dense-fog-on-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/205426\/","title":{"rendered":"Delhi records \u2018very poor\u2019 AQI; MeT issues orange alert for dense fog on Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The national capital recorded air quality in the \u201cvery poor\u201d category on Sunday with an overall Air Quality Index reading of 390, according to the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB).<\/p>\n<p>The meteorological department has issued an orange alert of very dense fog for Monday, with maximum and minimum temperatures likely to hover around 22 and 7\u00b0C, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>According to data on the CPCB\u2019s Sameer App, 19 monitoring stations in Delhi reported air quality in the \u201csevere\u201d category with Anand Vihar recording highest AQI of 457, while the remaining recorded \u201cvery poor\u201d levels.<\/p>\n<p>An AQI between 0 and 50 is considered \u201cgood\u201d, 51 to 100 \u201csatisfactory\u201d, 101 to 200 \u201cmoderate\u201d, 201 to 300 \u201cpoor\u201d, 301 to 400 \u201cvery poor\u201d, and 401 to 500 \u201csevere\u201d, according to CPCB standards.<\/p>\n<p>The city recorded a low of 6.3\u00b0C, 0.5 degrees below the season\u2019s average, while the maximum temperature settled at 22.5\u00b0C, 2.1 notches above the seasonal average, the meteorological department said.<\/p>\n<p>The humidity was recorded at 100 per cent at 5 .30 pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The national capital recorded air quality in the \u201cvery poor\u201d category on Sunday with an overall Air Quality&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205427,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[122114,273,111,139,69,147],"class_list":{"0":"post-205426","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-delhi-aqi","9":"tag-environment","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz","13":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}