Most winters, the city is blanketed in a toxic smog of car fumes, agricultural smoke, and factory waste.
New Delhi suffered a rare summer air pollution alert Monday as dust storms and heat over northern India took smog to hazardous levels.
On Monday, the Indian government’s air quality index hit “very poor” with PM 2.5 particles, the most harmful, at 154 micrograms per cubic metre, five times the normal safe level. VK Soni, an India Meteorological Department official, told AFP: “Right now we are in the thunderstorm season. High-speed winds are raising a lot of dust but we think it is only transient and will change in a day or two, when it rains.”
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