Mercury reaches 44.1°C in Bhavnagar, 11 places see temps at or over 41°C but no heat-wave owing to moist air

Ahmedabad:

Bhavnagar today remained hottest place in Gujarat for the second consecutive day today with the highest temperature of this summer so far at 44.1 °C .

In all at least 11 places saw mercury touching or crossing 41 °C and Deesa in North Gujarat seeing second highest temperature at 42.9 °C .

Ahmedabad though saw slight decrease in maximum temperature as compared to yesterday yet recorded 42.7 °C which was 1.5 °C above normal.

Met department said that the high temperatures were caused by the strong radiation owing to cloud-less skies but still there was no heat-wave owing to the fact that there was moisture in the atmosphere owing to Southwesterly and Westerly wind pattern.

The maximum relative humidity in Ahmedabad today was 65% which during afternoon came down to 16%. In coastal areas the humidity as usual was higher.

The met bulletin today has said that there won’t be any large change in maximum temperatures in next two days.

The maximum and minimum temperatures at various places across Gujarat today was as following-
PORBANDAR 33.6 26.1 AHMEDABAD 42.7 26.1 RAJKOT 42.5 25.7 DEESA 42.9 25.6 VERAVAL 32.6 26.7 GANDHINAGAR 42.8 27.0 IDAR 42.0 26.1 SURENDRANAGAR 42.7 26.3 V.V. NAGAR 41.4 26.7 MAHUVA 36.4 22.9 VADODARA 41.0 26.9 BHUJ 39.0 24.6 SURAT 33.8 27.6 VALSAD 35.4 23.1 NALIYA 35.4 25.4 KANDLA PORT 35.5 26.4 AMRELI 42.2 25.2 KANDLA AIRPORT 41.4 25.9 BHAVNAGAR 44.1 25.4 DWARKA 31.3 26.8.

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