Met issues heavy to very heavy rain warning for next 4 days in Gujarat, isolated places in central parts to see extreme downpour on August 26

Gandhinagar: Met department has issued heavy to very heavy and occasional extremely heavy rainfall warning in parts of Gujarat in the next four days.

Under the influence of a morning upper air cyclonic circulation over Northeast Arabian sea and adjoining Saurashtra between 3.1 km and 4.5 km above mean sea level moderate to heavy rainfall has taken place in Porbandar today even as the average rainfall in the taluka till 6 pm this evening was 40 mm. Only 10 talukas have seen rain till 6 pm today.

A met official said that under the influence of a system over bay of Bengal central and northern parts of the state would see heavy to very heavy and occasional extremely heavy rainfall from day after tomorrow ie August 25. Tomorrow parts of South Gujarat will sea heavy rain spells.

Notably, the state has so far seen 89.30% of average seasonal rain.

The heavy rainfall warning in the met bulletin issued today is as follows-

DAY 1 (Today): Heavy rains very likely at isolated places in the district of Saurashtra namely Porbandar.

DAY 2: Heavy rains very likely at isolated places in the districts of South Gujarat region namely Valsad, Navsari and in Daman Dadra Nagar Haveli.

DAY 3: Heavy to very heavy rains very likely at isolated places in the districts of Gujarat region namely Sabarkantha, Aravalli, Kheda, Vadodara, Panchmahal, Dahod, Mahisagar, Chhota Udepur, Narmada, and Bharuch.

DAY 4: Heavy to very heavy rains very likely at isolated places with isolated extremely heavy falls in the districts of North Gujarat region namely Aravalli, Dahod, and Mahisagar. Heavy to very heavy rains very likely at isolated places in the districts of Gujarat region namely Banaskantha, Patan, Mehsana, Sabarkantha, Kheda, Vadodara, Panchmahal, Chhota Udepur, Narmada, Bharuch, Surat; in the districts of Saurashtra namely Amreli, Bhavnagar, Dwarka, Gir Somnath, Diu.

DAY 5: Heavy to very heavy rains very likely at isolated places in the districts of Gujarat region namely Mehsana, Sabarkantha, Gandhinagar, Aravalli, Kheda, Ahmedabad, Panchmahal, Dahod, Mahisagar; in the districts of Saurashtra namely Rajkot, Jamnagar, Porbandar, Bhavnagar, Morbi, Dwarka, Gir Somnath. Heavy rains very likely at isolated places in the district of South Gujarat region namely Vadodara.