India, Jan. 30 -- Delhi's air quality remained in the higher end of "very poor" category on Thursday due to slow winds of around five km per hour even as a shallow to moderate fog blanketed parts of the city and the minimum temperature rose to 9.2degC. Palam recorded visibility of 1,000 metres at 7am, which dipped to 700m at 8.30am. The visibility at Safdarjung dipped from 800 metres at 6.30am to 500 metres two hours later.

Safdarjung, which is representative of Delhi's weather, recorded a minimum temperature of 9.2degC or 0.8deg above the normal and 2.8deg higher than that recorded on Thursday. Palam recorded a minimum temperature of 10.7degC, which was 1.8degdegrees more than the day before.

A western disturbance impacting the region ...