48 Talukas record 2 to 7 inches of rain, state average rises 3 % in 24 hours

Ahmedabad: Met Department has forecast rains in most of the districts during next 24 hours as well with some parts of North and Central Gujarat and Kutch likely to experience heavy rains even as the last 24 hours alone had seen a downpour of around 3 % of the state average of Monsoon rainfall.

During last 24 hours 207 talukas of 32 districts (of total 33 districts except Bhavnagar) witnessed rains. Of these 133 experienced good amount of rains with 48 seeing 2 to 7 inches of downpour while 85 recording a half to one inch of rains.

Meghraj Taluka in Aravalli district in North Gujarat recorded the maximum downpour of 190 mm (around 7 inches). Aravalli’s district average was 93 mm, highest across the state. Mahesana district in North Gujarat saw 53 mm rains with its Unjha and Satlasna talukas recording 154 mm and 100 mm respectively. Sabarkantha district with 65 mm average rain recorded 173 mm downpour in Idar taluka, a place also ill-famous for its extremely high temperatures during summers. Mahisagar, Panchmahal, Banaskantha, Patan, Junagadh, Gir Somnath districts also witnessed rains.

Dangs district in South Gujarat experienced good amount of rain on the third consecutive day. With 52 mm rains in last 24 hours it left Valsad behind to become the highest rainfall receiver district in terms of amount in the state so far. Dangs total rainfall so far is 610 mm.

Ahmedabad district (7.31 % ) which is at third place behind Kutch (4.77 %) and Anand (6.80 %) in terms of scanty rainfall percentage across the state received 24 mm rains while the city registered 34 mm in last 24 hours. Gir Somnath (31.11%) is the highest rain receiver in this respect so far.

With the spell of rain during last 24 hours the percentage rain fall across Gujarat has become 18.82 % with over 3 % rise from yesterday and over 5 % increase in just last 48 hours.

Met Department has forecast light to heavy rains in various amounts in all parts of the state in the next 24 hours. It has predicted heavy rains in Banskantha, Sabarkantha, Patan, Mahesana, Aravalli and Gandhinagar in North Gujarat, Kheda, Panchmalah and Mahisagar in Central parts of the state and Kutch district.

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