Mercury dips further, at least 10 places in Gujarat see below 10°C temperatures, Gandhinagar coldest at 6.2°C

Ahmedabad: As the northeastely to easterly winds bring cold from northern regions, the mercury dipped below 10 °C at at least 10 places in Gujarat today amid increase in the severity of cold wave conditions.

Gandhinagar at 6.2 °C remained coldest while Naliya at 6.4 °C was close second in this regard.

Amreli (7.5 °C ), Deesa (7.7 °C ) and the adjoining union territory of Diu (8.1 °C ) were the other places were the mercury went in to the single digit figure.
Ahmedabad recorded a minimum of 9.8 °C which was 2.5 degrees below normal. Amid the fall in the maximum temperatures across the state, the same here was recoreded at 25.6 °C , 2.4 degrees below normal.

The met bulletin issued by the IMD center here today said that cold wave conditions would continue to prevail at isolated pockets in the districts of Gujarat region namely Gandhinagar, Banaskantha, Sabarkantha, Valsad, Vadodara; in the districts of Saurashtra- Kutch namely Kutch, Porbandar, Diu, Bhavnagar, Amreli, Rajkot tomorrow as well. All these area experienced cold wave today as well.

The maximum and minimum temperatures at various places across Gujarat and in the adjoining UT of Diu today was as following –
PORBANDAR 28.6 10.1 AHMEDABAD 25.6 09.8 RAJKOT 27.4 10.7 DEESA 26.0 07.7 VERAVAL 29.5 14.1 GANDHINAGAR 23.6 06.2 DIU 26.2 08.1 SURENDRANAGAR 27.3 10.5 V.V. NAGAR 25.2 11.8 MAHUVA 27.0 08.9 VADODARA 26.3 09.2 BHUJ 28.4 11.2 SURAT 27.4 13.0 VALSAD 28.9 08.5 NALIYA 27.7 06.4 KANDLA PORT 26.6 09.5 AMRELI 27.0 07.5 KANDLA AIRPORT 26.9 09.2 BHAVNAGAR 25.7 10.2 DWARKA 27.2 15.4 OKHA 26.2 16.7.

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