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Nineteen areas in Delhi recorded severe air quality while 18 areas showed very poor air quality, according to the CPCB. Ghaziabad, Faridabad, Greater Noida and Noida recorded severe air quality while Gurgaon showed improvement in air quality, as it stood in moderate category, according to the CPCB. Authorities have attributed the dip in air quality to unfavourable weather conditions like low wind speed. (Express photo by Gajendra Yadav/File)Delhi’s air quality is on the verge of turning back to severe as the pollution level increased again due to unfavourable meteorological conditions like low wind speed, authorities said Monday. The air quality severely deteriorated on the day after Diwali on Thursday and continued to remain in severe category before showing slight improvement on Saturday..