Met department issues heavy to very heavy rain warning for parts of Gujarat for August 27, 28

Ahmedabad:

The met department has today issued heavy to very heavy rainfall warning for parts of Gujarat from August 27.

The warning in the met bulletin today read –

August 27: Heavy rains very likely at isolated places in South Gujarat region namely in the districts of Valsad, Navsari, Surat, Dang and in Daman Dadra Nagar Haveli.

August 28 : Heavy to very heavy rains very likely at isolated places in Gujarat region namely in the districts of Valsad, Navsari, Surat, Dang, Tapi, Narmada, Chhota Udepur, Dahod and in Daman, Dadra Nagar Haveli. Heavy rains very likely at isolated places in Saurashtra namely in the districts of Botad & Bhavnagar.

The spell of heavy rain can be attributed to another low pressure area likely to form over Bay of Bengal from August 26.

Notably the recent spell of monsoon has caused over 13 % of seasonal rain in just a matter of around a week and taken the rain figure from 55% to over 68%.

Currently there was a cyclonic circulation over South West Rajasthan and adjoining Gujarat at 3.1 km from the mean sea level but it was not so strong to cause any heavy rain.’

Meanwhile by 6 pm today 75 talukas have seen light to moderate rain with Vyara in Tapi and Waghai in Dangs have seen maximum 16 mm rain.

Ahmedabad city has also seen around 4 mm of rain with the central and north zone seeing over 5 mm.

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