Severe heat wave continues, Surendranagar hottest at 45.3°C

Ahmedabad: Severe heat wave conditions prevailed over Kutch and isolated places over Saurashtra and South Gujarat region today while heat wave of some-what lesser intensity was felt at some other places across the state even as Surendranagar recorded the highest temperature of 45.3°C.

Met department reiterated its forecast that heat wave would continue at several places for the next five to six days.

Ahmedabad witnessed maximum 43.6 °C which was 4.3 °C above normal, the lowest temperature in the city was 24.3 °C which was also 0.7 °C above normal. The city remained under orange alert along with Bhuj, Gandhinagar, Deesa, Rajkot and Amreli. Four places technically fell under red range of alter with over 45°C temperature while many saw yellow level of alert.

Northerly wind at lower level is likely to keep the weather dry in the coming days as well.

The maximum and minimum temperatures at various places across the state today was as following –

PORBANDAR 42.4 23.0 AHMEDABAD 43.6 24.3 RAJKOT 43.5 26.3 DEESA 44.2 24.4 000.0 000.0 VERAVAL 34.0 24.0 GANDHI NAGAR 43.8 26.0 IDAR 45.0 28.3 SURENDRANAGAR 45.3 26.4 V.V. NAGAR 42.4 25.4 MAHUVA 38.8 21.9 VADODARA 42.8 24.0 BHUJ 43.8 25.4 SURAT 37.8 25.3 MANDVI 41.5 27.0 VALSAD 41.4 19.1 NALIYA 41.0 20.8 KANDLA PORT 45.1 25.0 AMRELI 44.3 25.8 KANDLA AIRPORT 45.4 22.2 BHAVNAGAR 41.8 27.4 DWARKA 32.2 24.8 OKHA 32.0 25.1.

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