Parts of North Gujarat, Saurashtra-Kutch continue to experience heat-wave

Ahmedabad:

Parts of North Gujarat and Saurashtra-Kutch including Rajkot today experienced heatwave with Kandla airport recording the highest temperature of 42.7 º C.

The mercury however subsided marginally in other parts of the state including North.

Northerly to Northwesterly dry winds were likely to continue with heat-wave in some parts tomorrow as well as there won’t be any substantial lowering of the temperatures in the next two days.

In Ahmedabad city the maximum temperature today was 40.8°C which was 3.2 º C above normal.

Heat-wave conditions were particularly prevailing in Surendranagar, Amreli and Rajkot districts where a large number of cases of fainting owing to it were also reported.

The maximum and minimum temperatures at various places across Gujarat today were as following – AHMEDABAD 40.8 20.3.0 RAJKOT 41.5 24.1 DEESA 41.0 21.7 GANDHINAGAR 41.0 18.5 DIU 32.2 21.8 IDAR 41.0 26.7 SURENDRANAGAR 42.3 24.2 V.V. NAGAR 38.0 23.1 VADODARA 39.6 22.6 BHUJ 39.6 21.4 SURAT 32.2 25.6 VALSAD 32.4 18.1 NALIYA 36.4 17.6 KANDLA PORT 38.6 22.4 AMRELI 41.0 23.7 KANDLA AIRPORT 42.7 20.0 BHAVNAGAR 37.4 21.9 DWARKA 31.5 23.8.

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