Mercury’s mood softens further, heat-wave warning also made less severe; V V Nagar hottest at 44.4°C

Ahmedabad: With the indication of further softening in the mood of mercury, the met department today also softened its earlier forecast about the long heat-wave spell limiting it for only one more day in its bulletin even as Vallabh Vidyanagar in central Gujarat remained hottest today with maximum temperature of 44.4 °C.

Met department had earlier predicted severe heat-wave conditions in the state till at least April 20. Today it changed it and issued simple heat wave warning for just one more day and limiting it to parts of South Gujarat.

Some parts of the state today also witnessed heat wave.

In Ahmedabad the maximum temperature was recorded at 42.5°C, almost 2.7°C above normal. The yellow level alert for the city issued by the AMC continued. Other major cities of the state including capital Gandhinagar, Rajkot, Vadodara and Surat, where Prime Minister Narendra Modi organized a mega road show this evening also fell in the range or close to the range of yellow level of alert of the respective municipal bodies owing to the maximum temperature being 41°C or above.

The maximum and minimum temperature across the state today was as following –
PORBANDAR 34.5 22.5 AHMEDABAD 42.5 23.6 RAJKOT 42.3 23.6 DEESA 41.7 23.8 VERAVAL 31.4 24.0 GANDHI NAGAR 42.5 24.0 SURENDRANAGAR 42.3 24.4 V.V. NAGAR 44.4 24.7 MAHUVA 37.8 21.5 VADODARA 41.6 24.6 BHUJ 40.7 22.2 SURAT 41.0 24.6 VALSAD 38.4 19.1 NALIYA 34.4 22.0 KANDLA PORT 38.5 24.1 AMRELI 43.0 24.4 KANDLA AIRPORT 41.7 22.2 BHAVNAGAR 41.5 24.6 DWARKA 30.8 24.2 OKHA 31.0 25.0.

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