Met issue heavy to very heavy rain spell warning, Gujarat SEOC says nothing to worry about

Gandhinagar: The met department has issued another spell of heavy to very rain at isolated places in Gujarat from tomorrow though it was not likely to create any alarming situation even as heavy downpour ( close to five inches) took place at two places in South Gujarat in last 24 hours but in all only around 40 talukas have seen rain.

Meanwhile the monsoon rain percentage in the state has crossed 90 % mark (90.79% till this afternoon.)

The met bulletin today has not attributed any reason for the heavy spell of rain from tomorrow. The warning for the coming 3 days was as following-

August 27- HEAVY RAIN VERY LIKELY AT ISOLATED PLACES OVER GUJARAT REGION AND IN DAMAN, DADRA NAGAR HAVELI.

August 28- HEAVY TO VERY HEAVY RAIN VERY LIKELY AT ISOLATED PLACES OVER GUJARAT REGION AND IN DAMAN, DADRA NAGAR HAVELI; HEAVY RAIN VERY LIKELY AT ISOLATED PLACES OVER SAURASHTRA, KUTCH AND IN DIU.

August 29- HEAVY RAIN VERY LIKELY AT ISOLATED PLACES OVER GUJARAT REGION AND IN DAMAN, DADRA NAGAR HAVELI; HEAVY TO VERY HEAVY RAIN VERY LIKELY AT ISOLATED PLACES OVER SAURASHTRA, KUTCH AND IN DIU.

Meanwhile, the state emergency operation center (SEOC) today said that the spell of heavy rain was not a matter of worry as there was no likelihood of any extremely heavy downpour during it. ‘We have not received any high alert like warning in this regard,’ an official of the SEOC said.

He said that the spell was likely to remain like the one recently happened during which some spells of heavy to very heavy rain took place but most of which was moderate.

He said that in the last 24 hours Uchchhal in Tapi district got 120 mm while Vansda in Navsari got 139mm of rain. Apart from these Sagbara in Narmada district got 69 mm. Other over 30 talukas got light to moderate rain. Surat city and Waghai in Dangs got 25mm each.

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