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Delhi Air Quality Slips as 16 Stations Record Poor AQI Levels
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News18•05-10-2026, 20:45
Delhi Air Quality Slips as 16 Stations Record Poor AQI Levels
- •Sixteen of Delhi's 44 air quality monitoring stations recorded pollution levels in the poor category, bringing the city's overall AQI to 184.
- •Dwarka Sector 8 recorded the highest AQI of the day at 278, followed closely by Mundka at 268 according to Central Pollution Control Board data.
- •The India Meteorological Department has forecast rain and thunderstorms for Tuesday with a maximum temperature around 35 degrees Celsius.
- •Satellites detected 36 stubble-burning events across six states, bringing the seasonal total to 254 crop-residue burning incidents since September 15.
- •Delhi recorded a maximum temperature of 36.6 degrees Celsius, but experienced a higher feels-like temperature of 40.8 degrees Celsius in the evening.
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On Monday, Delhi's overall Air Quality Index stood at 184, placing it in the 'moderate' category, while 16 of the city's 44 monitoring stations recorded pollution levels in the 'poor' category.
The India Meteorological Department forecast a maximum temperature of around 35 degrees Celsius and a minimum of 22 degrees Celsius for Tuesday, alongside a thunderstorm accompanied by rain.
Satellites detected a total of 36 stubble-burning events across the six study states on October 5, which included 24 in Madhya Pradesh, five in Punjab, four in Uttar Pradesh, and three in Rajasthan.