The city's overall air quality index stood at 306 on Friday.
The city's air quality index will fluctuate between the higher end of the "poor" category and the lower end of the "very poor" category, it predicted.
Skymet is the first major Indian weather forecasting agency to have issued a monsoon forecast for 2016.
The directives came after he took stock of the situation arising from the massive earthquake at a high-level meeting attended by Ministers Arun Jaitley and Rajnath Singh, National Security Advisor Ajit Doval, Principal Secretary Nripendra Misra and senior officials of National Disaster Response Force and Indian Metereological Department.
The high hills of Himachal Pradesh received snowfall leaving tourists delighted.
The metropolis has received heavy rains in the last 24 hours.
The same development would benefit the progress of the north-east monsoon, also known as the 'reverse monsoon'.
He said it was not only a tax reform but 'is a measure that lends strength to the new culture of honesty'.
The powerful cyclone, strongest to hit India in 20 years, made landfall at around 8 am in India's eastern state of Odisha, killing at least 12 people.
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