Under the influence of 2 systems, more spells of heavy rain in next 48 hours:Met

Gandhinagar:

Met department today said that heavy to very heavy rain was likely to continue for the next 24 to 48 hours under the influence of the existing two upper air cyclonic circulations.

The met bulletin today said that owing to the morning upper air cyclonic circulation over Gujarat region and neighbourhood between 4.5 and 5.8 km above sea level and other such system over central part of Rajasthan aand neighbourhood extending hp to 0.9 km above sea level there would be heavy to very heavy rain in the next 48 hours. It has also predicted some extremely heavy falls during next 24 hours.

The prediction for Ahmedabad which has seen strongest downpour of the season in the last 24 hours with over 9 inches of rain at some places inundating many areas, was of intermittent rain/thundershowers with a few more spells of heavy showers.
The maximum temperature in the city today was 26.2 °C which was 5.8°C below normal. No place the state today saw temperature touching even 30°C mark.

The detailed met warning for tomorrow and the day after is as following –

July 28 – Heavy to very heavy rain at isolated places in the districts of Gujarat region namely Banaskantha, Patan, Mehsana, Sabakantha, Aravali, Mahisagar, Dahod, Panchmehal, Gandhinagar, Ahmedabad, Valsad, Navsari, Surat, Tapi, Bharuch; and in the districts of Saurashtra-Kutch namely Kutch, Surendranagar, Morbi,

July 29 – Heavy rain very likely at isolated places in the districts of Gujarat region namely Banaskantha,Patan, Mehsana, Sabarkantha, Aravali

Meanwhile the worst hit Banaskantha district administration has issued notification advising people not to go to the low lying areas close to rivers even as the river Rel whose flood inundated and caused heavy damage to various places like Dhanera town was again seeing surge in water level owing to fresh flow of water from Rajasthan.

Fishermen have also been warned against venturing in to the sea along and off Gujarat coast.

DeshGujarat