Gandhinagar:

Heavy to very heavy rain lashed Saurashtra region particularly Junagadh district on the second consecutive day today with Visavadar seeing around 10 inches of downpour till 8 pm.

Malia which had seen over seven inches of rain yesterday saw around 8 inches today.

Mendarana in Junagadh also saw 175 mm Junagadh city saw over five inches of rain. Keshod and Vanthali also saw over 5 inches. By 8 pm tonight a total of 150 talukas have seen rain. The total rain figures this monsoon season has crossed 30% mark tonight.

In the past 24 hours ending this morning at 8 am, 157 talukas of 30 districts saw rain. Maximum 220 mm was recorded in Kodinar of Gir Somnath district.

Due to rain today Bhakharvad dam in Maliya area of Junagadh has surged and was in near overflow situation. Water logging in the city and other towns was also seen.

An upper air cyclonic circulation over south Gujarat region and neighbourhood persists between 2.1 km and 3.6km above mean sea level.

HEAVY RAINFALL WARNING:-

July 15 : Heavy to very heavy rains very likely at isolated places in the districts of Gujarat region namely Tapi, Surat, Bharuch, Dang, Sabarkantha, Banaskantha, Mahisagar, Kheda, Mehsana, Gandhi Nagar, Dahod, Panchmahal, with isolated extremely heavy falls in Valsad, Navsari, Daman Dadra Nagar Haveli, Aravalli . Heavy to very heavy rains very likely at isolated places in the districts of Saurashtra namely Gir Somnath, Junagadh, Diu.

July 16 : Heavy to very heavy rains very likely at isolated places in the districts of Gujarat region namely, Tapi, Dang, Surat with isolated extremely heavy falls in Navsari, Valsad, Daman Dadra Nagar Haveli. Heavy to very heavy rains very likely at isolated places in the districts of Saurashtra namely Gir Somnath, Amreli, Bhavnagar, Junagadh, Diu.

July 17: : Heavy rains at a few places with isolated very heavy rains very likely in the districts of Gujarat region namely Bharuch, Narmada, Vadodara, Anand, Kheda, Panchmahal, Chhota Udepur, Panchmahal, Dahod, Mahisagar, Kheda, Aravalli, Gandhinagar, Sabarkantha, Mehsana, with isolated extremely heavy falls in Ahmedabad, Kheda, Anand. Heavy rains at a few places with isolated very heavy rains very likely in the districts of Saurashtra namely Bhavnagar, Amreli, Junagadh, Gir Somnath,Porbandar, Devbhumi Dwarka, Jamnagar, Morbi, Surendrnagar, Rajkot, Botad, Kutch with extremely heavy falls in Surendrnagar.

July 18: Heavy to very heavy rains very likely at isolated places in the districts of Gujarat region namely Surat, Bharuch with isolated extremely heavy falls Valsad, Navsari, Daman Dadra Nagar Haveli. Heavy to very heavy rains very likely at isolated places in the districts of Saurashtra namely Devbhumi Dwarka, Jamnagar, Porbandar.

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