Untimely ‘heat wave’ warning for coastal Saurashtra region

Ahmedabad: Amid soaring temperatures across Gujarat much before the proper advent of summer season, the met department has issued a ‘heat-wave’ warning for coastal Saurashtra region of the state for the next 24 hours.

Meanwhile area in and around Kandla airport in Kutch remained the hottest place with the highest maximum temperature of 37.3 °C while Amreli was close second in this regard at 37 °C during the last 24 hours. Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar with the similar maximum temperature figures of 36.8 °C remained the third hottest places in the state. The lowest temperature in Ahmedabad at 22.5 °C was also 2 degree above normal. However the highest among minimum temperatures was recorded at Vadodara at 23.6 °C.

The met center bulletin here which has predicted dry weather for the next five days has issued a heat-wave warning for coastal Saurashtra for tomorrow, however it has not mentioned the reason behind this surprising warning for this period of the weather.

The maximum and minimum temperatures at various places across the state and in the adjoining union territory of Diu during last 24 hours was as following –

PORBANDAR 31.8 20.0 AHMEDABAD 36.8 22.5 RAJKOT 36.3 22.1 DEESA 35.4 21.6 VERAVAL 29.9 21.3 GANDHI NAGAR 36.8 22.0 DIU 34.0 21.1 SURENDRANAGAR 36.3 21.2 V.V. NAGAR 35.7 21.5 VADODARA 36.4 23.6 BHUJ 34.8 21.4 SURAT 36.2 21.0 VALSAD 35.9 22.1 NALIYA 32.2 19.8 KANDLA PORT 34.3 22.2 AMRELI 37.0 21.6 KANDLA AIRPORT 37.3 21.0 BHAVNAGAR 35.6 22.8 DWARKA 29.0 22.9.

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