Heat-wave: Gandhinagar, Surendranagar, Amreli hottest at 43°C

Ahmedabad: Heat-wave conditions prevailed at some places in Saurashtra even as other parts of Gujarat also felt scorch of sun today while Gandhinagar, Amreli and Surendranagar recorded the similar highest temperature of 43 °C.

Ahmedabad and Rajkot remained second hottest with 42.9°C with yellow level alert though technically closer to the higher orange one. Maximum temperature in Ahmedabad was 1.5 °C above normal. Rajkot also felt heat-wave owing to dry wind and high temperature.

At least ten places in the state today recorded above 40 temperatures.

Though the met department has not issued any official heat-wave warning for tomorrow yet there seem to be no respite from scorching sun and heat.

Maximum and Minimum temperatures at various places in Gujarat today was recorded as following –

PORBANDAR 34.5 24.3 AHMEDABAD 42.9 26.4 RAJKOT 42.9 25.0 DEESA 42.0 26.0 VERAVAL 32.4 26.0 GANDHI NAGAR 43.0 27.8 0 SURENDRANAGAR 43.0 25.8 V.V. NAGAR 41.3 25.8 MAHUVA 39.2 24.7 VADODARA 42.4 27.0 BHUJ 41.8 23.8 SURAT 38.0 27.4 VALSAD 35.9 22.6 NALIYA 36.1 24.9 KANDLA PORT 35.8 24.4 AMRELI 43.0 27.2 KANDLA AIRPORT 40.6 24.0 BHAVNAGAR 39.6 28.2 DWARKA 31.4 26.5 OKHA 33.0 26.6.

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