Chandigarh: Air quality slides to very poor again
Hindustan TimesThe slight improvement in city’s pollution levels earlier this week did not last long as the air quality has started to plummet again, returning to the very poor category. A thick cover of haze continued to envelope Chandigarh on Thursday as the air quality remained in the very poor category for the second consecutive day. At 8 pm on Thursday, the Air Quality Index went up to 303 at the Continuous Ambient Air Quality Monitoring Station in Sector 53, which is considered very poor. Very poor air quality on four of first seven days of November Following the widespread bursting of firecrackers on Diwali, which fell on October 31, air quality has been very poor on four of the first seven days of November and poor on the remaining three days. But with the maximum temperature dropping to 30°C on Wednesday, the air quality turned very poor again due to the effect of temperature inversion.