Mercury touches first 40° C mark in Gujarat this year, Surendranagar recorded hottest

Ahmedabad: Amid abnormally high temperatures for this period of the season in various areas of Gujarat, the mercury in Surendranagar touched first ever 40 degree Celsius mark of this year making the district of Saurashtra bordering North Gujarat the hottest place in the state yesterday.

Gandhinagar with the highest temperature of 39.2 ° C remained on the second spot in this regard.

With dry northwesterly and northerly winds bringing dry hotness from neighbouring Rajasthan, the maximum temperature in Ahmedabad at 38.9 ° C was also over 2 dergee above normal. The lower temperature in the city today was 21.7° C around a degree above normal.

Though the met department has not issued any heat-wave warning as was done a few days ago for Saurashtra region quite untimely, yet it has predicted the weather to remain dry hot in coming few days.
Maximum and minimum temperature at various places including neighbouring union territory of Diu in last 24 hours was as following –

PORBANDAR 34.7 22.0, AHMEDABAD 38.9 21.7 RAJKOT 38.8 21.3, DEESA 38.6 23.1 VERAVAL 33.6 20.8, GANDHI NAGAR 39.2 19.5 DIU 31.5 20.6, SURENDRANAGAR 40.0 22.8, MAHUVA 37.4 22.7, VADODARA 38.6 22.0 BHUJ 37.6 20.4, SURAT 37.4 23.2. MANDVI 34.0 21.0, VALSAD 34.9 17.1 NALIYA 34.4 17.8, KANDLA PORT 36.3 21.8, AMRELI 39.5 21.2 KANDLA AIRPORT 37.6 22.1, BHAVNAGAR 37.3 25.0, DWARKA 27.5 22.6, OKHA 28.3 23.2.

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