Despite marginal drop in temperatures, no respite from heat-wave, Surendranagar/Kandla Airport hottest at 44°C

Ahmedabad: Even though temperatures across Gujarat recorded marginal drop today yet there was no respite from continuing heat-wave at many places and Surendranagar and Kandla Airport with maximum 44°C remained hottest.

The met bulletin today forecast about continuation of heat wave at several places across the state till April 20.

The ‘orange’ alert in Ahmedabad was lowered to ‘yellow’ as the maximum temperature here came down marginally recording 43.0 °C (yesterday it was slightly higher at 43.6). It was still 3.7 °C above normal. Rajkot remained under orange alert of the RMC while Vadodara and Surat came out of the alert list of any kind. Capital Gandhinagar was under yellow alert.

Amreli with maximum temperature of 43.6°C and Idar with 43.4°C remained second and third hottest places in Gujarat today. There was also slight change in wind pattern with ocassional westerly winds joining the prevailing northwesterly ones.

The maximum and minimum temperatures across the state today were as following –

PORBANDAR 38.5 23.5 AHMEDABAD 43.0 21.6 RAJKOT 43.1 24.1 DEESA 42.7 24.4 VERAVAL 32.0 24.0 GANDHI NAGAR 42.6 21.0 IDAR 43.4 30.3 SURENDRANAGAR 44.0 25.4 V.V. NAGAR 41.5 25.4 MAHUVA 38.0 23.1 VADODARA 40.6 25.6 BHUJ 41.5 24.0 SURAT 35.6 26.5 VALSAD 36.4 19.6 NALIYA 38.6 20.4 KANDLA PORT 42.7 24.4 AMRELI 43.6 24.6 KANDLA AIRPORT 44.0 22.5 BHAVNAGAR 39.7 24.3 DWARKA 31.6 24.4 OKHA 32.0 24.7

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