Mumbai’s air quality in ‘moderate’ category

Mumbai (ANI): According to SAFAR-India, a system of air quality and weather forecasting and research, the air quality in Mumbai on Monday morning was recorded in the ‘moderate’ category with an air quality index of 127. On Tuesday last week, the air quality in Mumbai was recorded in the ‘moderate’ category with an air quality index of 115. Earlier this month, Mumbai had recorded its air quality in the ‘good category’.

However, the city witnessed an increase in heat and the average daily maximum temperature remained between 32 and 34 degrees for a week, causing the air quality to fall into the moderate category.
Air Quality Index is a tool to effectively convey the status of air quality in easy to understand terms for people. AQI has six categories: good + satisfactory, moderately contaminated, poor, very poor and severe. Each of these categories is decided based on ambient concentration values of air pollutants and their potential health effects (known as health cut-off points).

According to the AQI scale, air quality between 0 and 50 is considered “good”, 51 and 100 are “satisfactory”, 101 and 200 are “moderate”, 201 and 300 are “poor”, 301 and 400 are “very poor”. ” It is believed. “, and when AQI is more than 450, 401 and 450 are “severe” and “severe+”. (ANI)