Met forecasts light to moderate rains in 15 districts in next 24 hours, state average crosses one fifth mark

Ahmedabad: The met department has predicted light to medium rains in the 15 of total 33 districts of Gujarat during next 24 hours even as 149 talukas of all the districts witnessed downpours duirng last 24 hours taking the total rain fall of the season slightly over one fifth portion of the average monsoon rains in the state.

The met department has forcast light to medium rains for 15 districts across the state in next 24 hours including Ahmedabad which is seeing some downpour since this afternoon. During the last 24 hours the city saw only 6 mm of rains and the district on an average 7 mm.

Other districts likely to have rains are Aravalli and Gandhinagar in North Gujarat region (which has witnessed 19.86% of monsoon rains till today morning), Ahmedabad, Anand, Mahisagar in East Central Gujarat (17.83%) Bharuch, Surat and Valsad in South Gujarat (maximum 20.77% so far) and Surendranagar, Junagadh, Devbhoomi Dwarka, Jamnagar, Porbandar and Gir Somnath in Saurashtra region (20.56%) and Kutch district and region (least figures of 5.38%). The overall state average now has become 20.06%.

In the last 24 hours of the 149 talulkas that witnessed rains, 61 had mentionable amount. Manavadar in Junagadh had the highest downpour of 118 mm ie around 4 inches. Maliya (96mm), Mangrol (95mm) and Keshod (52 mm) talukas also had good rains in the district. Porbandar taluka of the same district also had 94 mm, while Kalyanpur in Devbhoomi-Dwarka district had 74 mm. Meghraj in Aravalli which had seen very heavy downpour the day before yesterday also had 64mm of moderate rains.

Meanwhile with the fresh water pouring in to the rivers across the state, various dams, which were virtually dried up in the scortching summers a few weeks ago, have seen a big surge in the water levels. Owing to the rains in neighbouring Madhya Pradesh and flooding of many regional rivers including Tapi in South Gujarat, the NDRF teams have also been alerted.

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