Monsoon advances further, covers whole of Gujarat

Gandhinagar: The South West Monsoon has further advanced today and covered the entire state of Gujarat even as light to moderate rains were experienced at various places during the day and the state machinery has braced itself to deal with any situation amid continuing heavy to very heavy rain warnings of the met department at isolated places in the state for the next five days.

The met bulletin said that the monsoon advanced further in Gujarat and covered the entire state today.
Several places including Surat, Nadiad, Vapi, Junagadh witnessed over one and a half inches of rain today. Other places like Rajkot, Ahmedabad, Naliya, V V Nagar also saw some rain. In the last 24 hours a total of 139 talukas of 30 districts witnessed rain with Satlasana in Mahesana recording a maximum of over three and a half inches. Ahmedabad in all has seen around two inches of rain in 24 hours.

The met has issued warning of heavy to very heavy rain at isolated places in Gujarat in next five days. There were two upper air cyclonic systems looking active over South Gujarat and Saurashtra.

Meanwhile cloudy weather and drizzles in Ahmedabad has also brought down temperatures considerably. The maximum temperature in the city today was 33.9° C which was around 3 degrees below normal.

In last 24 hours one person and over 100 small animals have died in rain related incidents. A 19 year old boy Rajdeep Chudasama died last evening as lightening struck him in Deda village under Gir Somnath district. 93 sheep/goats of a farmer in Haroda village under Lakhpat taluka of Kutch distirct also died owing to lightening this morning. 13 goats had also died owing to similar reasons in Anara village under Kheda district.

The maximum and minimum temperatures at various places across Gujarat in last 24 hours were as following -PORBANDAR 34.8 25.5 AHMEDABAD 33.9 24.2 RAJKOT 37.1 26.8 DEESA 31.0 26.0 VERAVAL 32.4 27.0 GANDHI NAGAR 33.5 25.0 IDAR 32.4 23.1 SURENDRANAGAR 36.3 27.8 V.V. NAGAR 33.3 26.7 MAHUVA 32.4 27.1 VADODARA 34.6 26.0 BHUJ 35.0 28.5 SURAT 31.8 26.8 VALSAD 29.4 20.6 NALIYA 34.4 27.2 KANDLA PORT 35.9 28.3 AMRELI 36.0 26.2 KANDLA AIRPORT 36.0 28.7 BHAVNAGAR 35.0 28.0 DWARKA 37.4 27.6 OKHA 35.0 28.3.

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