Showers in pockets of south Gujarat and Saurashtra

Surat, 2 July, 2014

The southern Gujarat district Navsari today received considerably good rain in the morning. A round of shower caused brief water logging and obstruction in traffic for some time but gave relief to people from temperature.

Ideally, some shower in some district of Gujarat does not make news, but Gujarat is so thirsty and eager for rain at this juncture that a round of shower in Navsari is news.

As per the weather department(Government of India), the monsoon officially arrived in Gujarat only in southern parts upto Surat and some parts of Saurashtra last month. However there has been a long dry spell between the last round of shower and today’s rain.

Ideally monsoon should be there across allover Gujarat by 15th of June, but this year even on 2 July(today) the monsoon has been declared officially set only upto Surat and parts of southern Saurashtra.

Showers are reported at Dabhoi in central Gujarat, Gondal in Saurashra and Dharampur, Kaprada, Umargam in south Gujarat.

Meteorological centre, Ahmedabad has predicted light to moderate rain or thundershowers at isolated pces in the districts of south Gujarat region, coastal Saurashtra and in Diu, Daman, Dadara Nagar Haveli region on 2nd and 3rd July. The prediction note also says that weather will be mainly cloudy in the districts of north Gjarat region, remaining Saurashtra and in Kutch district.