Good news for flood-hit Gujarat, no fresh heavy rain warning from tomorrow

Gandhinagar: In a good news for flood-hit Gujarat, the met department has not issued any fresh heavy rain warning for tomorrow.

Even as 192 talukas of 33 districts witnessed rain in last 24 hours with Kaprada in Valsad seeing maximum 222 mm (around 9 inches) and some other places in Valsad and Navsari districts up to 5 inches of rain and over 90 taluks seeing rain today also including Suigam, Palanpur and Waw in flood hit Banaskantha (one to two inches) and some parts of southern Gujarat, there is no likelihood of any further spells of heavy rains from tomorrow.

Though under the influence of two upper air cyclonic systems over east Rajasthan and Saurasthra-Kutch there will be some spells of heavy rain tonight.

Meanwhile, with fresh flow of water from Rajasthan the 4 and 9 gates of Sipu and Dantiwada dams respectively were opened today also to release the extra water.

With the stopping of rain in Ahmedabad and other areas temperatures which had gone below 30 are showing marginal rise. Ahmedabad recorded a maximum of 32.5 °C which was 0.5°C above normal.

In the meantime the seasonal rain average in the state has crossed 79% mark today.

The relief and rescue operations in flood hit areas were in full swing.

DeshGujarat