Delhi In Discomfort: City Records 41.8 Degrees Celsius, High Humidity

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Last Updated:May 20, 2025, 23:56 IST

The India Meteorological Department said the humidity successful the nationalist superior fluctuated betwixt a precocious 67% and 43%

A mirage appears connected the Kartavya Path during a blistery summertime afternoon, successful New Delhi connected May 20. (Image: PTI)

Delhi recorded a maximum somesthesia of 41.8 degrees Celsius and a precocious comparative humidity, which combined caused discomfort for radical outdoors connected Tuesday. The humidity fluctuated betwixt a precocious 67 and 43 per cent, the IMD said.

Humidity importantly raises the ‘felt’ somesthesia — sometimes by 3 to 5 degrees Celsius much than the recorded aerial temperature, making adjacent mean vigor much dangerous. A minimum somesthesia of 28.7 degrees Celsius, 2.2 notches beneath normal, was recorded successful the metropolis connected Tuesday.

The IMD has forecast a thunderstorm with rainfall for Wednesday. The maximum and minimum temperatures volition apt settee astir 39 degrees Celsius and 29 degrees Celsius, respectively.

Meanwhile, a caller survey by the Council connected Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW) highlighted 3 cardinal trends crossed northbound India, including Delhi: a emergence successful precise lukewarm nights; expanding comparative humidity and heightened vigor vulnerability successful dense, urban, and economically captious districts specified arsenic Delhi — which falls successful the precocious to precise precocious vigor hazard category.

The survey besides recovered that comparative humidity has accrued by up to 10 per cent crossed the Indo-Gangetic Plain implicit the past decade.

While coastal areas typically grounds 60-70 per cent comparative humidity, northbound India historically experienced levels astir 30-40 per cent. Over the past decade, it has risen to 40-50 per cent.

Traditionally drier cities, specified arsenic Delhi, are present besides seeing higher humidity levels.

Delhi’s 24-hour mean Air Quality Index (AQI) was recorded successful the “poor" class astatine 204, according to the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB).

An AQI betwixt 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".

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