Prickly mood of summer likely to return soon, 12 places record over 40 temp

Ahmedabad: With mercury rising again the prickly mood of summer likely to see a full-fledged return soon, at least 12 places in Gujarat saw over 40 temperatures and Surendranagar remained hottest at 44°C.

Kandla Airport was second hottest at 43.8°C while Gandhinagar remained at third place with 43.5°C.

Ahmedabad recorded a maximum of 43.1°C which was 1.9 degree above normal, the minimum here at 27.8°C was also 1.8 degree above normal. The city technically remained under ‘Orange’ level of alert.

Some private met companies though have predicted some showers in southern Gujarat and parts of Saurashtra in coming days yet the met department in its bulletin has not mentioned any rain for the period.

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

PORBANDAR 36.2 24.1 AHMEDABAD 43.1 27.8 RAJKOT 42.3 24.5 DEESA 42.2 28.2 VERAVAL 32.4 25.7 GANDHI NAGAR 43.5 29.0 IDAR 43.4 28.2 SURENDRANAGAR 44.0 26.5 V.V. NAGAR 41.5 27.3 MAHUVA 38.8 25.9 VADODARA 42.0 27.6 BHUJ 41.8 24.4 SURAT 36.6 26.8 VALSAD 35.4 21.6 NALIYA 37.0 22.9 KANDLA PORT 38.1 25.4 AMRELI 43.2 26.0 KANDLA AIRPORT 43.8 24.4 BHAVNAGAR 40.2 28.5 DWARKA 31.8 26.4 OKHA 33.1 26.2.

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