Pleasant Tuesday morning in Delhi

New Delhi, March 12 (IANS) It was a pleasant Tuesday morning in the national capital with the minimum temperature recorded at 12.8 degrees Celsius, three notches below the season’s average, the Met said.

"The sky will remain partly cloudy," an India Meteorological Department (IMD) official told IANS.

The humidity at 8.30 a.m., was recorded at 80 per cent. The city received 0.6 mm of rain in last 24 hours.

The maximum temperature was expected to hover around 27 degrees Celsius.

The overall Air Quality Index (AQI) of Delhi at 8.30 a.m. was recorded at 172, which is moderate.

Monday’s maximum temperature settled at 8.4 degrees Celsius, one notch below the season’s average while the minimum was 12.4 degrees Celsius, two notches below the normal.