Met intensifies warning, forecast of extremely heavy rainfall for Aug 29, 30, districts alerted

Gandhinagar: The met department today intensified its heavy rain warning in Gujarat even as some places today saw moderate to heavy rain.

Various district were issued alert by the State Emergency Operation Center (SEOC) on the advice from met department.

Earlier the met department has said that the spell of rain won’t be a matter of worry but now it has predicted some spells of extremely heavy falls on August 29 and 30.

The detailed district wise rain warning is as following –

August 28 – Heavy to very heavy rain very likely at isolated places in the districts of Gujarat region, namely Valsad, Dang, Navsari, Tapi, Surat, Bharuch, Narmada, Chhota Udaipur, Vadodara, Anand, Kheda, Panchmahal and Daman , Dadra Nagar Haveli. Heavy rain very likely at isolated places in the district of Saurashtra, namely Bhavnagar.

August 29- Heavy to very heavy rain at a few places with isolated extremely heavy falls very likely in the districts of Gujarat region namely Valsad, Dang, Navsari, Tapi, Surat, Bharuch, Narmada, and Daman , Dadra Nagar Haveli ; Heavy to very heavy rain at isolated places in the districts of Gujarat region, namely Anand and Vadodara; heavy to very heavy rain very likely at isolated places in the districts of Saurashtra namely Bhavnagar, Botad, Amreli, Junagarh, Gir Somnath and Diu.

August 30- Heavy to very heavy rain at a few places with isolated extremely heavy falls very likely in the districts of Gujarat region namely Valsad, Navsari, Dang and Daman, Dadra Nagar Haveli ;Heavy to very heavy rain at isolated places in the districts of Gujarat region, namely Surat, Tapi, Bharuch, Narmada, Vadodara and Anand; heavy to very heavy rain very likely at isolated places in the districts of Saurashtra-Kutch namely Bhavnagar, Botad, Amreli, Junagarh, Gir Somnath, Rajkot, Jamnagar, Morbi , Diu and Kutch.

August 31- Heavy rain very likely at isolated places in the districts of Gujarat region namely Valsad, Navsari, Surat, and Daman Dadra Nagar Haveli ; Heavy to very heavy rain very likely at isolated places in the districts of Saurashtra –kutch namely Amreli, Gir Somnath, Junagarh, Porbandar, Devbhumi Dwarka, Jamnagar , Kutch and Diu.

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