Cold wave in parts of Gujarat, Met issues warning for tomorrow as well

Ahmedabad: Despite the marginal rise in maximum temperatures today, cold wave conditions were witnessed in parts of Gujarat today especially north Gujarat and Kutch and Saurashtra region due to steep fall in minimum temperatures.

The met department has also issued Cold wave warning for the same areas for tomorrow stating that such conditions were very likely at isolated pockets of North Gujarat Region, Saurashtra-Kutch nalmely Banaskantha, Patan, Morbi, Rajkot and Kutch.

It has also predicted a very likely fall in minimum temperature over the region by 2° C during next 2 days.

Naliya in Kutch with the minimum of 6.2 °C was coldest today while Deesa in North Gujarat was second in this regard with 8.4 °C. Kandla Airport in Kutch was third coldest at 10.4 °C.

Ahmedabad which recorded a minimum of 10.8 °C, which was almost 3 notch below normal was fourth coldest place across the state while Gandhinagar at 11.0 °C was fifth.

A met official today said that though there was marginal rise in maximum temperatures due to clearing of clouds yet these are, at many places considerably below normal. With the decline in minimum temperatures the mean temperature had gone down causing the cold wave situation at some places. The Northeasterly to easterly winds at lower levels were also responsible for increase in cold.

The maximum and minimum temperatures (In degree Celsius °C ) at various places across Gujarat today were as following –
PORBANDAR 29.8 14.8 AHMEDABAD 26.4 10.8 RAJKOT 29.0 11.0 DEESA 27.9 08.4 VERAVAL 30.0 14.4 GANDHINAGAR Not Available,11.2 DIU 28.8 12.0
SURENDRANAGAR 28.3 13.2 V.V. NAGAR 24.9 11.3 MAHUVA 28.4 13.5 VADODARA 27.2 12.6 BHUJ 29.4 11.6 SURAT 29.8 14.0 VALSAD 31.9 11.6 NALIYA 28.6 06.2 KANDLA PORT 26.7 13.2 AMRELI 27.2 11.6 KANDLA AIRPORT 26.8 10.4 BHAVNAGAR 26.2 13.4 DWARKA 26.4 15.5.

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