{"id":3020,"date":"2016-04-06T00:01:03","date_gmt":"2016-04-05T16:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smartairfilters.com\/in\/?p=3020"},"modified":"2020-07-15T11:56:27","modified_gmt":"2020-07-15T03:56:27","slug":"does-spring-bring-better-air-to-delhi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smartairfilters.com\/en\/blog\/does-spring-bring-better-air-to-delhi\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Spring Bring Better Air to Delhi?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_3061\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3061\" style=\"width: 1590px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/smartairfilters.com\/in\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/04\/LodiGardenTrees-crop.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3061\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/smartairfilters.com\/in\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/04\/LodiGardenTrees-crop.jpg\" alt=\"Spring in Delhi, is the air clean?\" width=\"1600\" height=\"852\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3061\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3061\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Spring in Delhi, is the air clean?<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\n<br \/>\nDelhi Winters are notoriously known for bad levels of air pollution, but we often hear that air\u00a0gets cleaner\u00a0come Spring. We were curious what was happening in our own backyard, so we put out our Dylos Particle Counter\u00a0on a rooftop near our Saket\u00a0office. \u00a0The Particle Counter measures particle counts between 0.5 to 2.5 micron in size\u00a0per 0.01 cubic ft. From this number, we can estimate\u00a0PM2.5, which are microns approximately 30 times smaller than human hair. PM2.5 is\u00a0considered harmful to human health since these particles\u00a0can get lodged deep into the lungs and cause respiratory and cardiovascular problems.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the data from November 2015 &#8211; March 2016. Though air pollution levels do drop in March, notice\u00a0that the month still had zero days of &#8216;good&#8217; or &#8216;moderate&#8217; quality air. Due to fluctuations in hourly air quality, some of the maximums in March are higher than the average pollution levels between November and February.<\/p>\n<p>[infogram id=&#8221;jtxqxDuhWNB6qfL7&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p>Though\u00a0Delhi air may get better in the Spring, it doesn&#8217;t improve enough to be considered clean or healthy. Keep those masks and air filters handy!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delhi Winters are notoriously known for bad levels of air pollution, but we often hear that air\u00a0gets cleaner\u00a0come Spring. We were curious what was happening in our own backyard, so we put out our Dylos Particle Counter\u00a0on a rooftop near our Saket\u00a0office. \u00a0The Particle Counter measures particle counts between 0.5 &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"Does Spring Bring Better Air to Delhi?\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/smartairfilters.com\/en\/blog\/does-spring-bring-better-air-to-delhi\/#more-3020\" aria-label=\"Read more about Does Spring Bring Better Air to Delhi?\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":331,"featured_media":3063,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,261],"tags":[27],"class_list":["post-3020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-air-pollution","category-weather","tag-delhi"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartairfilters.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartairfilters.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartairfilters.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartairfilters.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/331"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartairfilters.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3020"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/smartairfilters.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11480,"href":"https:\/\/smartairfilters.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3020\/revisions\/11480"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartairfilters.com\/en\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartairfilters.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartairfilters.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartairfilters.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}