MUMBAI: Mumbaikars woke up to a smog-engulfed winter morning on Sunday, the sixth consecutive day when the city's 24-hour average air quality index (AQI) tipped dangerously close to 'poor', even as air quality in many locations within the city remained 'very poor' for several hours. Ozone and PM 2.5 were the primary pollutants for the first three and the latter three days in the six-day period, respectively, and prolonged exposure to these pollutants could cause irritation in the airways, worsening respiratory ailments and even causing such illnesses among normal people.
"Humidity in Mumbai is currently low while vertical wind speeds are high, which means that there are no water droplets to keep pollutants close to the ground. Instead, pollutants are pushed up until the inversion layer, leading to haze," said Gufran Beig, chair-professor at the National Institute of Advanced Sciences (NIAS).
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