According to the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), the AQI in the national capital was recorded at 447, which comes under the ‘severe’ category while the IMD has predicted a moderate fog during the day.
With the onset of winter in Kashmir, the valley has started witnessing temperatures plunging as low as freezing point. Fog covered the Srinagar city this morning, causing visibility to be restricted to a few metres.
Chandrayaan-3: ChaSTE has measured the temperature profile of the lunar topsoil around the Moon's south pole, ISRO said in its latest statement.
Scientists agree that by far the biggest cause of the recent extreme warming is climate change from the burning of coal, oil and natural gas that has triggered a long upward trend in temperatures.
China, where the temperature rose to the 50-degree mark witnessed a dramatic change as Mohe, a city in northeastern Heilongjiang province, plunged to minus 53C in January.
The temperature on Monday was about 0.8 degrees higher than the average for this time of year in the late 20th century, when human activity had already warmed global temperatures.
Meanwhile, a heatwave alert has been issued for Bihar, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh , Odisha and Andhra Pradesh for the next five days which are currently reeling under the heatwave conditions.
The Met Office later confirmed that 30.5 °C was recorded at Heathrow, marking the first time this year that temperatures in the UK exceeded 30 °C (86 °F).
Partly cloudy skies with possibility of dust storm and thunderstorm towards evening and strong surface winds of 20-40 kmph during day.
According to the weatherman, the latest radar observations show the movement of an intense convective cloud mass across Punjab, Haryana, J&K, and Himachal Pradesh.
The Met department issued an 'orange' alert with a warning of severe heatwave conditions for two days from Tuesday in Patna, Banka, Jamui, Nawada, Aurangabad, Supaul and several other districts.
Heatwave conditions prevailed in several states, including Maharashtra, Haryana, Delhi-NCR and West Bengal. A fatal heatstroke incident occurred in Maharashtra in which 11 people lost their lives.
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India could skip the spring season entirely and enter directly into summer, as the maximum temperatures in seven states have surpassed those usually recorded in mid-March. Now IMD has issued a heatwave alert for the Konkan and Kutch regions of western and northwest India.
Delhi’s air quality remained in the poor category on Tuesday morning. This is after a day following the city recording its hottest February day in two years and the warmest day for the first week of the month since 2013.
Cold wave swept through north India region as Chandigarh records 2.8 degrees Celsius and Delhi- 5.3 degrees Celsius. The cold weather conditions prevailed in Delhi-NCR, Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh. The lowest minimum temperature 0°C was recorded in Churu, Rajasthan, said IMD.
Delhi Air Quality: An AQI between zero and 50 is considered good, 51 and 100 satisfactory, 101 and 200 moderate, 201 and 300 poor, 301 and 400 very poor, and 401 and 500 severe.
Advising fishermen to stay away from the sea, the weather man also said that strong winds with a speed of 40 to 50 kmph are expected.
The capital logged a minimum temperature of 23.6 degrees Celsius. A slight increase in temperature -- up to 41 degrees Celsius -- is predicted over the next three to four days but there is no forecast of a heatwave for another week, the IMD said.
Heatwave conditions prevailed in mid and low hills of Himachal Pradesh in the past 15 days.
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