Pollution levels in Delhi peaked to a three-year high on Sunday, prompting hundreds of distraught people to take to social media to say they wanted to leave the city because of poor air quality.
According to the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), the national capital’s 24-hour average air quality index (AQI) stood at 494 at 4 p.m. on Sunday, the highest since November 6, 2016, when it was 497.
The Ministry of Earth Sciences’ air quality monitor, SAFAR, said the city’s overall AQI reached as high as 708 around 5 p.m., which is 14 times the safe level of 0-50.
Some weather models showed that Delhi’s pollution could impact even south India. A chemical-pollutants dispersal model called SILAM (System for Integrated modeLling of Atmospheric coMposition), developed by the Finnish Meteorological Institutes, indicated that the plume of dust and smoke hanging over Delhi would travel towards east India, move into the Bay of Bengal and hike pollution levels as far away as Tamil Nadu.
“That is quite unlikely,” said V.K. Soni, scientist at the India Meteorological Department.
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