AMC declares red alert tomorrow, orange alert a day after

Ahmedabad

Despite very marginal drop in maximum temperatures across the state, the heat wave continued for the second day today in its recent spell this summer while the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC ) has issued red level alert in for tomorrow in the wake of the forecast of maximum temperature likely to soar above 45 degree Celsius.

Idar in North Gujarat which was boiling at 46 degree yesterday today saw slight downturn in the mercury at 44.6 yet it remained the hottest place in the state today as well.

One heat stroke affected 70 year old person who was admitted in the AMC run V S hospital here yesterday died today. The maximum temperature in Ahmedabad today was 44.5, the second hightest in the state.

Ahmedab Met Center Director Jayanta Sarkar held north westerly winds responsible for the heat wave.

Meanwhile, in a somewhat good news the AMC in its warning has said that the temperatures in the coming days would continiously go down. It has lowered the level of alert to orange for June 8 and yellow for the following three days with maximum temperature projection for June 11 coming down to 41 degree.

The maximum temperature at various places during the last 24 hours was as following-

PORBANDAR 36.8, AHMEDABAD 44.5, RAJKOT 42.2, DEESA 44.0, ,GANDHI NAGAR, 44.4, IDAR 44.6 SURENDRANAGAR 44.3, V.V. NAGAR 43.1, VADODARA 42.6, BHUJ 41.2 SURAT 33.0 AMRELI 43.0 KANDLA AIRPORT 44.4 BHAVNAGAR 39.8 DWARKA 33.0.

– DeshGujarat