AHMEDABAD: Sporadic rainfall was recorded in several parts of the city on Sunday night, bringing the temperature down. The city experienced maximum temperature of 40 degrees celsius, which was almost at par with the normal, whereas minimum temperature at 29.2 degrees was 1.3 degrees higher.
The cloudy and humid day gave way to a cooler night, but the Met department officials said that it’s part of pre-monsoon activity and the official arrival of monsoon in southern Gujarat is likely on Monday. Meanwhile, 70 talukas of Gujarat recorded at least 1mm rainfall on Sunday till 8pm with Santrampur in Mahisagar district recording 75mm and Junagadh taluka and city recording 43mm rainfall each. Viramgam near Ahmedabad received 2mm rains.