Artificial rain lowers AQI

LAHORE:The artificial rain in City has brought down the Air Quality Index (AQI) from hazardous to unhealthy level here Sunday.

On Saturday, the AQI was recorded as 347 whereas on Sunday it was 194 and with this decrease, the city also came down at the forth position from the top slot of the world’s top 10 most polluted cities.

Meanwhile, Met officials said a shallow westerly wave was affecting northern parts of the country. They predicted that mainly cold and dry weather was expected in most plain areas of the country while very cold in northern areas. They added that fog/smog was likely to occur in plain areas of Punjab, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and upper Sindh. Rainfall was recorded in some cities, including Kalat, Drosh, Mirkhani, Pattan, Chitral, Sialkot, Narowal and Muzaffarabad.

Sunday’s minimum temperature was recorded at Leh where mercury dropped to -06°C, while in Lahore, it was 6.1°C and maximum was 19.2°C.