Delhi woke up to cloudy skies on Friday with the city recording a minimum temperature of 24 degrees Celsius, the highest so far this season.
The weather office has forecast thunderstorms accompanied by rain later in the day.
The maximum temperature is likely to settle around 39 degrees Celsius.
Air quality was recorded in the poor category with the Air Quality Index (AQI) recorded at 241 at 9 am.
Among stations, Palam recorded a minimum temperature of 25 degrees Celsius, 3.2 degrees above normal.
Lodhi Road registered 22.4 degrees Celsius, 1.4 degrees above normal, while the Ridge station logged 24.7 degrees Celsius, 1.7 degrees above normal. Ayanagar recorded 22.8 degrees Celsius, 0.7 degrees above normal.
Data from the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) showed that 28 monitoring stations reported ‘poor’ air quality, six fell in the ‘very poor’ category, and 11 recorded ‘moderate’ levels.
As per CPCB standards, an AQI between 0-50 is considered ‘good’, 51-100 ‘satisfactory’, 101-200 ‘moderate’, 201-300 ‘poor’, 301-400 ‘very poor’, and 401-500 ‘severe’.
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