South West monsoon officially arrives in southern Gujarat and Saurashtra
June 22, 2016
Ahmedabad
Monsoon has further advanced into some parts of North Arabian sea, extreme south parts of Gujarat and some more parts of South West Madhya Praderh, said Indian Meteorological Department(IMD) today.
The Northern limit as per the latest updated IMD map featuring advance of SouthWest monsoon this year shows that monsoon has set in parts of Southern Saurashtra upto Veraval and southern Gujarat upto Surat. Monsoon has also set in eastern portion of Gujarat up to Vadodara.
Normally Gujarat should witness onset of monsoon on 15 June in most of parts, but it’s 22nd of June today and monsoon has officially arrived only today, that too in just southern portions of Saurashtra and South Gujarat.
After several hours of extremely humid atmosphere the city of Ahemdabad today received light rains in most of the parts.
The city of Surat continued to witness showers for the second day.
– DeshGujarat
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