Mumbai: For the second day in a row, the city continued to experience a nip in the air with the minimum temperature dipping below 20°C. On Monday morning, IMD’s Santacruz observatory, representative of Mumbai, recorded a minimum temperature of 19°C — 2.9°C below normal — and the Colaba observatory 22°C — 2.1° below normal.The minimum temperatures recorded by the Colaba and Santacruz observatories on Sunday were 22.4°C and 19.6°C, respectively.On Monday, daytime temperature recorded by the IMD Santacruz observatory was 32. 6°C, 1.8°C below normal. The IMD Colaba observatory recorded a maximum of 32°C, which was 2° below normal. In its forecast for the week, the weather bureau has indicated that dry weather conditions are expected to continue.Mumbai’s Air Quality Index (AQI) remained in the moderate category on Monday morning at 110 — nearly unchanged from the levels recorded two days ago. The readings were last updated at 12.05 pm.Data from the Central Pollution Control Board showed varying air quality levels across the city. Mumbai airport’s Terminal 2 recorded an AQI of 112, slightly lower than Sunday’s 116, while Byculla registered 110, down from 115 a day earlier. Both remained in the moderate category. In comparison, Vile Parle recorded an AQI of 88, Worli 78, and Colaba 45 — all falling in the good to satisfactory range.AQI readings between 0-50 are regarded as good, 51-100 is regarded as satisfactory, 101-200 is regarded as moderate, 201-300 is regarded as poor, 301-400 is regarded as very poor and above 400 is considered to be severe.
