Heavy rain spell to continue till tomorrow, Mangrol sees over 6.5 inches

Gandhinagar/Ahmedabad: Amid the ongoing spell of heavy to very heavy rain in Gujarat which was likely to continue at least till tomorrow. Saurashtra region today received good amount of rain with Mangrol in Junagadh seeing the maximum of over six and a half inches of downpour till six pm in the evening.

Over 120 talukas saw rain till evening today of which the other top raining ones were Gadhada in Botad district (122mm)] Sutrapaada in Gir Somnath district (109mm), Maliya in Junagadh (105mm) and Veraval in Gir-Somnath (90mm), according to the data released by the state emergency operation center (SEOC). The state was likely to see some extremely heavy spells tonight.
Parts of Rajkot, Amreli, Morbi districts also seen some rain today. Owing to rain and cloudy weather many areas of Saurashtra today witnessed below 30 °C maximum temperature. Highest across the state was 35 °C in Gandhinagar while Ahmedabad recorded a maximum of 34.4 °C which was 2.2 °C above normal.

The state has seen over 88 % of rain by this evening. In the 24 hours ending at 8 am today, a total of 222 talukas of all the 33 district had seen rain of which the maximum of 107 mm was registered in Mandvi taluka of Surat district.

The met bulletin said that monsoon was vigorous over Saurashtra and Kutch and active over Gujarat region. It has attributed low pressure area over south west Madhya Pradesh and adjoining ares associated with upper air cyclonic circulation extending up to 7.6 km above sea level for the rains.

The bulletin has also forecast for some spells of heavy rains for Ahmedabad tonight or tomorrow.

DeshGujarat