India, Oct. 29 -- Very light to light rain was expected in parts of Delhi, even as the minimum temperature of 19.2degC at Safdarjung, the city's base weather station, on Thursday was 3.1 degrees above normal, and three monitoring stations recorded very poor air quality. Nineteen monitoring stations recorded moderate air quality. The overall Air Quality Index (AQI) was in the poor category (228) at 9.05am.

In its 8.30am weather bulletin, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said the minimum temperature at Safdarjung rose by 3.5 degrees in the past 24 hours. On Wednesday, Delhi recorded a maximum temperature of 31.8degC, 0.8 degrees above normal.

On Thursday, Palam recorded a minimum temperature of 17.7degC, 0.7 degrees above normal....