Ahmedabad: On a day when South Western Monsoon made its entry in Kerala, Light pre-monsoon rain and thundershowers were witnessed in some parts of Gujarat including Southern districts of Surat, Valsad and Navsari today even as temperatures at some places saw slight increase as compared to yesterday despite continuing high humidity.

Seven places in the state saw over 40°C temperatures today compared to only two such places yesterday.

Surendranagar with 43°C remained hottest place today. Rajkot with 41.8°C was second hottest place.

With partially cloudy sky, mostly during the morning, Ahmedabad recorded a maximum of 41°C which was though over a degree higher than that of yesterday was still 0.7°C lower than normal. The city saw relative humidity between 40 to 68% today.

Meanwhile various parts of Surat, Valsad, Navsari, Panchmahal, Dahod, Mahisagar and other districts today saw light rain or thundershowers as predicted by the met center.

The met has predicted continued spell of pre-monsoon showers( light to moderate rain) or thundershowers at a few places in the state in the coming days as well.

The maximum and minimum temperatures at various places across the state today was as following -PORBANDAR 34.6 28.5 AHMEDABAD 41.0 29.2 RAJKOT 41.8 28.0 DEESA 41.4 28.7 VERAVAL 33.4 29.1 GANDHI NAGAR 41.2 30.5 IDAR 41.2 29.4 SURENDRANAGAR 43.0 29.3. V V. NAGAR 40.4 29.1 MAHUVA 36.8 27.9 VADODARA 39.1 29.2 BHUJ 38.2 27.0 SURAT 34.6 28.4 VALSAD 35.4 25.1 NALIYA 35.5 28.8 KANDLA PORT 38.4 28.9 AMRELI 39.1 28.2 KANDLA AIRPORT 39.4 28.5 BHAVNAGAR 39.1 29.6 DWARKA 32.0 28.1 OKHA 33.6 28.8.

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