(SPAM) Surat Municipal Corporation Has Issued ‘RED Alert’ For 3 Days

This is a fake post circulating on social media. Please find more details at the verification section of this article.

Post Information:

Below post has been circulating on social media.

Surat Municipal Corporation has issued ‘RED Alert’ for 3 days.
Mean temperature will be between 45.1 to 48.5degrees Celsius
Please drink 6-7 liters of water a day, Avoid going out in open sun from 11AM- 4 PM.
Circulate this message in family & friends.

Verification:

No such RED ALERT reports found in the media as of this post. As on the date we saw this post, 29th March 2017 the weather forecast for Surat is shown below.

29th March 2017 40°C
30th March 2017 38°C
31th March 2017 40°C

Ref: http://www.accuweather.com/en/in/surat/202441/daily-weather-forecast/202441

So it’s a HOAX.

Update: (30th March 2017)

However the heat condition in India is critical this summer. Please find more details at the link below.
http://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/india-dangerous-heat-to-intensity-this-week-after-arriving-unusually-early/70001217

IMD All India Warning Daily Reports can be found at this link.
http://www.imd.gov.in/pages/allindiawxwarningbulletin.php

Please note that same post has been circulating in the name of other cities as well.

https://check4spam.com/internet-rumours/mumbai-pune-municipal-corporation-issued-red-alert-spam/

https://check4spam.com/internet-rumours/vadodara-mahanagar-seva-sadan-vmss-issued-red-alert-spam/

https://check4spam.com/internet-rumours/ahmedabad-municipal-corporation-issued-red-alert-spam/

Post Date: 29th March 2017

Post ID: #67428

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