Several places in rain-starved North Gujarat see good rain, no heavy rain warning for next 5 five days

Ahmedabad:

Several places in rain-starved North Gujarat today saw good rain even as parts of Central Gujarat also saw spells of moderate rain.

By 6 pm today a total of 90 talukas mainly in North and East Central Gujarat have seen rain with Meghraj in Aravalli seening maximum 64mm.

Prantij in Sabarkantha 61 Shahera in Panchmahal 60, Singwad in Dahod 46, Santrampur in Mahisagar 42, Becharaji in Mahesana 40 , Siddhpur in Patan 38, Radhanpur in Patan 34, Talod in Sabarkantha 30 and Modassa in Aravalli 22 mm. Around 19 talukas have seen around one inch or more of rain.

Parts of Banaskantha, Gandhinagar, Ahmedabad and Mahesana also saw rain today.
Detroj in Ahmedabad saw over half and inch of rain. The city is also witnessing some rain in the evening.
Even though there was on upper air cyclonic circulation over South Gujarat and adjoining area and one east-west shear zone along latitude 20deg North tilting southward, the met bulletin has not issued any heavy rain warning for the next five days and said that light to moderate rains would take place.

Notably Gujarat has so far seen around 71% monsoon rain this year but Kutch and North Gujarat have not seen ample rain so far. In the last 24 hours only 59 talukas of 17 districts saw light to moderate rain with Khedbrahma in Sabarkantha district recording maximum 59mm.

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