A day after lifting the heat-wave warning met resumes it again, Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar hottest with 42.5°C

Ahmedabad: A day after lifting the heat wave warning the met department today again issued it for Saurashtra-Kutch and South Gujarat region even though the downward trend of temperature at many place continued today with mild heat-wave conditions at some place Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar, the hottest places in the state with a moderate maximum of 42.5°C.

After around 8 days long spell of normal to severe heat-wave at several place during which the mercury soared above 45°C on many occasions, the met department in its bulletin yesterday had lifted the heat wave warning completely yesterday. A few days ago it had predicted the heat-wave to continue till April 20.

However, it has resumed the heat-wave warning again for tomorrow and said that heat wave conditions also prevailed today at isolated places.

Even though the trend of fall in maximum temperature continued today also and the number of places witnessing below 40°C temperature increased further, Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar with maximum 42.5°C were hottest places. In Ahmedabad the maximum temperature was 2.7°C above normal. Both the cities were under yellow level of heat alert.

The maximum and minimum temperature at various places across Gujarat was as following-

PORBANDAR 32.6 22.4 AHMEDABAD 42.5 25.6 000.0 000.0 RAJKOT 41.0 23.6 DEESA 40.4 23.5 VERAVAL 31.7 22.9 GANDHI NAGAR 42.5 25.8 IDAR 42.2 27.2 SURENDRANAGAR 41.7 23.8 V.V. NAGAR 40.9 25.0 MAHUVA 41.4 19.5 VADODARA 41.9 23.6 BHUJ 37.6 22.9 SURAT 41.4 24.0 VALSAD 38.4 20.1 NALIYA 34.0 22.6 KANDLA PORT 37.1 24.5 AMRELI 42.0 22.5 KANDLA AIRPORT 39.5 22.9 BHAVNAGAR 41.4 23.4 DWARKA 30.4 25.1 OKHA 30.9 24.9.

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