MUMBAI: The Mumbai skyline is once again enveloped with a thick layer of fog or mist 50 to 100 meters above the sea level giving poor visibility from the top floors of the city's highrises.
According to meteorologists this is not due to poor air quality caused by pollution, but mainly due to cold air gushing in from the North mixing with the humid air along Mumbai coast resulting in the formation of fog which eventually can also lead to localised drizzling.
This, said Gufran Beig, programme director of SAFAR (the System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting And Research by Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune) is also an indication of temperature in Mumbai getting colder soon. Recently Mumbai had seen a reversal of sea breeze causing heavy rainfall for a few days.
Monday's air quality Index (AQI) for Mumbai suggested that almost all major suburbs have ‘satisfactory’ air quality while Colaba, BKC and Malad showed ‘moderate’ quality taking the overall AQI of the city to a ‘No risk’ level.
