Met issues heavy rains warning for isolated places in South Gujarat and Saurashtra in next 48 hours

Ahmedabad: Met department today issued heavy rain warning for isolated places in South Gujarat and Saurashtra along with adjoining union territories of Diu, Daman and Dadra and Nagar Haveli in the next 48 hours even as some places witnessed light to moderate rains today as well while the temperatures across the state remained below 40°C amid cloudy weather and moist south westerly winds.

Parts of Bhavnagar today saw around an inch of rain while Rajkot city witnessed over half an inch of rainfall. Parts of Vadodara also saw light to moderate rains. Panchmahal, Jamnagar and some places in North Gujarat including Idar also recorded light rain. Ahmedabad city and other parts of the district also witnessed rains in the evening along with strong winds. Aravalli and other northern districts also saw rain.

The re-activation and furthering of south west monsoon which had touched the southern tip of Gujarat (Valsad) and was lying passive since then, will cause heavy rains as some places in South Gujarat and Saurashtra in next 48 hours. The high humidity in Ahmedabad and other places in North Gujarat may result in some drizzling or light to moderate rains along with cloudy weathers in the next two days.
The met warning issued today for next 48 hours reads ‘heavy rains very likely at isolated places over South Gujarat region, Saurashtra and in Diu, Daman and Dadra Nagar Haveli’.

However Kutch region, notorious for scant rain and water crisis, will remain more or less dry.

During last 24 hours Ahmedabad and Vallabh Vidya Nagar in central Gujarat recorded the highest temperature of 39.2°C. Humidity in inner parts of the state went as high as 71% while that in coastal areas were even higher.

The maximum and minimum temperatures at various places across Gujarat in the last 24 hours were as following –

PORBANDAR 34.7 28.9 AHMEDABAD 39.2 28.6 RAJKOT 33.7 27.5 DEESA 39.0 28.4 VERAVAL 33.6 29.1 GANDHI NAGAR 39.0 29.5 IDAR 37.2 28.3 SURENDRANAGAR 36.8 28.3 V.V. NAGAR 39.2 MAHUVA 35.8 27.3 VADODARA 38.3 28.8 BHUJ 36.0 28.2 SURAT 33.8 27.6 VALSAD 33.9 23.6 NALIYA 34.2 29.2 KANDLA PORT 38.5 29.0 AMRELI 37.5 27.7 KANDLA AIRPORT 37.8 29.0 BHAVNAGAR 38.2 24.8 DWARKA 33.0 27.6 OKHA 34.8 29.2.

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