Ahmedabad: If you’ve been feeling like the last few days have been too hot for early March, the sun plans to turn up its heat even further in what the Met Office calls the first yellow alert of the season. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has forecast a “sporadic impact of heat waves” in Ahmedabad and several other districts on Monday and Tuesday. A yellow alert was issued for Kutch and Rajkot on Sunday.This alert for Monday and Tuesday covers Kutch, Banaskantha, Gandhinagar, Ahmedabad, Surendranagar, Rajkot, Amerli, Bhavnagar, Botad, Vadodara and Surat. These districts may experience above-normal temperatures, with warm and humid conditions forecast for coastal areas. According to the IMD, temperatures are likely to stabilize from March 11 onwards. On Sunday, Ahmedabad recorded a maximum temperature of 39.4 degrees Celsius, 5.2 degrees above normal. The minimum temperature was 19.1 degrees Celsius, 1.2 degrees higher than normal. The forecast indicated a gradual increase in maximum and minimum temperatures of two to three degrees over the next three days. From then on there will be no big changes. In Rajkot and Surendranagar, the mercury touched 40 degrees Celsius on Sunday for the first time this summer. It was closely followed by Mahua (39.8 degrees) and Deesa (39.6). The IMD long-range forecast for March indicates chances of above normal temperatures in most regions of the state of Gujarat.