Dip in temperatures at several places of Gujarat including Ahmedabad just before Dhuleti

Ahmedabad: The temperatures at many places across Gujarat has seen a sudden dip of up to over 7 ° C owing to heavy snowfall in Northern states coupled by northwesterly winds just before the festival of colours Dhuleti (Holi).

Ahmedabad has registered a fall of around 7.5 °C in minimum temperature recording 10.2 today in comparison to 17.7 just a day before giving rise to the chances of Dhuleti to be observed in ‘pink cold’ tomorrow.

Gandhinagar with 9.5 °C of minimum temperature was coldest across the state.

Many places in North Gujarat, Saurashtra and Kutch including Deesa, Amreli, Bhuj, Rajkot and Naliya and neighbouring unioun territory of Diu have also experienced dip in minimum temperatures. However areas in Southern and Central Gujarat and Coastal Saurashtra remained comparatively warmer.

The situation is likely to ease up in next few days but on the occasion of Dhuleti tomorrow pink cold is likely to persist at several places especially during morning hours.

The Minimum temperatures at various places across the state and neighbouring Diu were as following –

Ahmedabad – 10.2, Deesa 11.2, Vadodara 17.0, Surat 18.6, Rajkot 13.5 Bhavnagar 16.0, Porbandar 16.3, Veraval 16.0, Dwarka 18.4, Okha 21.2, Bhuj 14.9 Naliya
11.0, Surendranagar 15.2, New Kandla 16.5, Amreli 11.8, Gandhinagar 09.5, Mahuva 15.5, Diu 12.7, Valsad 18.1, V.V. Nagar 14.5, Kutch-Mandvi 12.5.

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