Cold wave makes another comeback in Gujarat due to heavy snowfall in North, met issues warning for next four days also

Ahmedabad: Due to ongoing snowfall in the northern states and Northerly and Northeasterly winds at lower levels cold wave today made a comeback in Gujarat and the met department also issued warning about its continuation for the coming at least four more days.

At least four places saw below 10 °C temperatures today. Naliya remained coldest at 6 °C while Gandhinagar, Ahmedabad and Rajkot saw the minimum at 8.8 °C, 9.1 °C, and 9.5 °C respectively. In Ahmedabad the minimum temp was over 3 notches below normal. The maximum at 27.5°C was also almost one degree below normal.

The lowering of both minimum and maximum temperatures have brought the cold wave back which today was felt in isolated pockets of Saurashtra and Kutch including
KUTCH, RAJKOT, BHAVNAGAR, PORBANDAR and SURENDRA NAGAR districts.

The minimum temperatures are likely to go further down by 2 to 3 degrees in next couple of days.
The cold wave warning for the next four days was as below –

Tomorrow: COLDWAVE CONDITION VERY LIKELY TO PREVAIL AT ISOLATED POCKETS IN THE DISTRICTS OF GUJARAT REGION NAMELY AHMEDABAD, GANDHINAGAR, BANASKANTHA, SABARKANTHA, VALSAD, IN SAURASHTRA-KUTCH NAMELY KUTCH, RAJKOT, BHAVNAGAR AND SURENDRA NAGAR.

January 26: COLDWAVE CONDITION VERY LIKELY TO PREVAIL AT ISOLATED POCKETS IN THE DISTRICTS OF GUJARAT REGION NAMELY AHMEDABAD, GANDHINAGAR, BANASKANTHA, SABARKANTHA, VALSAD, IN SAURASHTRA-KUTCH NAMELY KUTCH, RAJKOT, BHAVNAGAR AND SURENDRA NAGAR.

January 27: COLDWAVE CONDITION VERY LIKELY TO PREVAIL AT ISOLATED POCKETS IN THE DISTRICTS OF GUJARAT REGION NAMELY AHMEDABAD, GANDHINAGAR, BANASKANTHA, SABARKANTHA, VALSAD, IN SAURASHTRA-KUTCH NAMELY KUTCH, RAJKOT, BHAVNAGAR AND SURENDRA NAGAR.

January 28: COLDWAVE CONDITION VERY LIKELY TO PREVAIL AT ISOLATED POCKETS IN THE DISTRICTS OF GUJARAT REGION NAMELY AHMEDABAD, GANDHINAGAR, BANASKANTHA, SABARKANTHA, VALSAD, IN SAURASHTRA-KUTCH NAMELY KUTCH, RAJKOT, BHAVNAGAR AND SURENDRA NAGAR.

The maximum and minimum temperatures at various places across Gujarat and in the UT of Diu today were as following –
AHMEDABAD 27.5 09.1 RAJKOT 26.9 09.5 DEESA 25.4 12.0 PORBANDAR 27.5 12.6 VERAVAL 27.8 13.8 GANDHINAGAR 25.6 08.8 DIU 28.8 11.0 SURENDRANAGAR 27.1 11.5 MAHUVA 28.8 11.2 VADODARA 28.0 13.0 BHUJ 25.8 11.2 SURAT 26.8 15.5 VALSAD 27.9 12.1 NALIYA 25.4 06.0 KANDLA PORT 26.1 11.9 AMRELI 27.1 10.2 KANDLA AIRPORT 25.5 12.3 BHAVNAGAR 26.3 12.6 DWARKA 25.6 14.7