No respite from ‘somewhat early’ heat-wave for almost a week, Bhuj hottest at 45.8°C, many cities under heat-alert

Ahmedabad: There seems to be no respite from some-what early ‘severe heat-wave’ in Gujarat in next few days as the mercury continued to soar newer highs with Bhuj recording highest 45.8°C and the met department has elongated its ‘heat-wave’ warning for almost a week.

Surendranagar with 45.7°C, Kandla Airport with 45.3°C and Idar with 45°C remained second, third and fourth hottest places respectively in the state today.

These four hottest places technically went in to the highest ‘red’ level of alert of the local bodies owing to crossing 45°C mark.

Capital Gandhinagar and three of the four major cities of the state including Ahmedabad, Vadodara and Rajkot saw ‘orange’ level of alert for maximum temperatures ranging between 43 to 45°C. Surat saw the yellow level of alert owing to slightly less temperature.

In Ahmedabad the maximum temperature today was 43.6 °C which was 4.3 °C higher than the normal. The current spell of severe heat-wave was some-what abnormal for this early period of summer.

The director of met center here Jayanta Sarkar said that there won’t be any respite from heat wave till April 20. The met bulletin which has a provision of maximum five days forecast warned of heat wave for all the five days. It said heat wave conditions most likely at a few places with severe heat wave conditions at isolated places over Gujarat Region , Saurashtra –Kutch and in adjoining union territories of Diu , Daman , Dadra Nagar Haveli would prevail in next 24 hours while in the next three days heat wave conditions most likely at isolated places over Gujarat region , Saurashtra – Kutch and in Diu , Daman , Dadra nagar haveli will prevail.

The maximum and minimum temperatures across the state and adjoining Diu today were as following –
PORBANDAR 43.4 21.4 AHMEDABAD 43.6 22.2 RAJKOT 44.8 24.8 DEESA 44.4 24.0 VERAVAL 40.2 25.9 GANDHI NAGAR 44.6 20.2 DIU 35.3 20.5 IDAR 45.0 24.7 SURENDRANAGAR 45.7 25.6 V.V. NAGAR 42.7 26.2 MAHUVA 39.8 23.2 VADODARA 43.4 24.2 BHUJ 45.8 26.4 SURAT 42.2 23.7 VALSAD 40.9 18.6 NALIYA 42.0 19.4 KANDLA PORT 44.6 24.3 AMRELI 44.5 25.8 KANDLA AIRPORT 45.3 27.8 BHAVNAGAR 42.0 27.7 DWARKA 31.8 24.2 OKHA 32.3 25.5.

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