Heat-wave to continue tomorrow also, above 40 temp recorded at 8 places including Ahmedabad, Deesa hottest at 42°C

Ahmedabad: Heat wave condition prevailed in many parts of Gujarat today even as the soaring mercury crossed 40°C mark at eight places across the state with Deesa recording the highest of 42°C.

The met department has continued its heat wave warning for tomorrow as well.

Amid the continuing northerly and northwesterly dry wind from neighbouring Rajasthan temperature in Ahmedabad also crossed 40 degree mark for the first time the pre-summer season. The maximum temperature here was 41.3 °C which was 4.6 degree above normal. The minimum temperature of 20.6 °C was however slightly below normal. Apart from Deesa and Ahmedabad the places with above 40 °C temperature were Rajkot, Gandhinagar, Surendranagar, Vadodara, Bhuj and Amreli. At many places temperature was near 40 including Mahuva, Surat, Kandla and Bhavnagar.

The met warning for tomorrow read – heat wave conditions very likely to prevail at isolated pockets of Gujarat region, Saurashtra and Kutch.

The maximum and minimum temperatures across the state was as following –

PORBANDAR 39.8 21.6 AHMEDABAD 41.3 20.6 RAJKOT 40.7 22.3 DEESA 42.0 21.9 VERAVAL 30.4 21.6 GANDHI NAGAR 40.6 20.5 SURENDRANAGAR 41.5 23.5 MAHUVA 39.2 19.9 VADODARA 40.8 20.9 BHUJ 41.3 23.0 SURAT 39.0 22.6 MANDVI 36.0 16.0 VALSAD 35.9 19.1 NALIYA 33.0 19.6 AMRELI 41.8 21.6 KANDLA AIRPORT 39.9 22.2 BHAVNAGAR 39.2 24.0 DWARKA 29.4 23.4 OKHA 29.2 23.8.

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