Bhavnagar hottest at 43.8°C, followed by Ahmedabad, Gandhinagar, Deesa at 43°C

Ahmedabad:

Bhavnagar today remained the hottest in Gujarat with 43.8 °C while Ahmedabad, Gandhinagar and Deesa were at joint second place in this regard with a common maximum temperature of 43 °C .

Despite rise in temperatures, however, owing to presence of moisture in the air due to changed wind pattern no heat-wave conditions prevailed anywhere in the state. South Westerly to westerly winds were carrying moisture from sea-side.

In all at least 11 places today saw mercury crossing 40 °C mark while 9 recording 42 °C or more and 4 43 °C or more.

Ahmedabad which saw a very marginal decrease in maximum temperature (from 43.1 °C of yesterday) to 43 °C was still 1.7 °C above normal.

The met department has not issued any heat-wave warning but said that there won’t be any large change in temperatures in next 2 days.

Maximum and Minimum temperatures across Gujarat today werre as following – PORBANDAR 34.2 26.6 AHMEDABAD 43.0 26.3 RAJKOT 42.7 25.6 DEESA 43.0 25.8 VERAVAL 32.9 26.8 GANDHINAGAR 43.0 26.IDAR 42.2 25.8 SURENDRANAGAR 42.8 26.8 V.V. NAGAR 41.1 26.8 MAHUVA 35.0 23.5 VADODARA 41.3 26.2 BHUJ 39.6 24.6 SURAT 33.0 27.0 VALSAD 34.4 22.6 NALIYA 35.5 25.7 KANDLA PORT 36.5 26.6 AMRELI 42.0 25.4 KANDLA AIRPORT 42.8 26.0 BHAVNAGAR 43.8 25.0 DWARKA 32.6 26.2.

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