Surat: Many districts of Gujarat have been hit with severe, incessant rains since the start of the week, and this spell of heavy rain is likely to continue further in the coming days, according to the prediction by the India Meteorological Department (IMD). The Ahmedabad office of the central weather agency has issued a Red Alert for up to extremely heavy rainfall in eight districts of Gujarat for the next 24 hours.

As per the IMD bulletin, Dahod, Mahisagar, Vadodara, Narmada, Bharuch, Surat, Navsari, and Valsad, along with the Union Territory of Daman and Dadra & Nagar Haveli, are very likely to be lashed by heavy to very heavy rain at a few places with isolated extremely heavy falls till tomorrow morning 8:30 am.

During the same period, other districts — namely Sabarkantha, Gandhinagar, Aravalli, Kheda, Anand, Panchmahal, Chhota Udepur, Dang, Tapi, Amreli, and Bhavnagar — have been placed on Orange Alert, as they may also witness very heavy rainfall.

The forecast implies that most places in Gujarat are likely to get heavy rain, except for a few districts — Porbandar, Dwarka, Jamnagar, Morbi, and Kutch — where only light rain is forecast today.

On June 25, Orange Alert is in place for Sabarkantha, Aravalli, Mahisagar, Dahod, Panchmahal, Bharuch, Surat, Navsari, and Valsad for very heavy rainfall, while other districts are also very likely to get light to heavy rain.

On June 26, only two districts — Banaskantha and Sabarkantha — are under Orange Alert for very heavy rain. Heavy rainfall may also occur in Patan, Mehsana, Gandhinagar, Aravalli, Navsari, Valsad, and in Daman, Dadra & Nagar Haveli, Rajkot, Porbandar, Junagadh, Amreli, Bhavnagar, Gir Somnath, and Diu.

On June 27, heavy to very heavy rain is very likely at isolated places in Sabarkantha and Aravalli, both under Orange Alert.
Heavy rain is also likely at isolated places in Banaskantha, Mehsana, Mahisagar, Navsari, Valsad, and in Daman, Dadra & Nagar Haveli, as well as Jamnagar, Porbandar, and Dwarka in Saurashtra-Kutch.

On June 28, Banaskantha and Sabarkantha are under Orange Alert for very heavy rain.
Heavy rain is very likely at isolated places in Patan, Mehsana, Aravalli, Bharuch, Surat, Dang, Navsari, Valsad, Tapi, and in Daman, Dadra & Nagar Haveli, Amreli, Bhavnagar, Gir Somnath, Kutch, and Diu.

On June 29, only Banaskantha and Sabarkantha remain under Orange Alert, while Patan, Mehsana, Aravalli, Bharuch, Surat, Dang, Navsari, Valsad, Tapi, and in Daman, Dadra & Nagar Haveli, Amreli, Bhavnagar, Gir Somnath, Kutch, and Diu are under Yellow Alert.

On June 30, an Orange Alert for very heavy rain is in place for Banaskantha, Sabarkantha, Navsari, Valsad, and in Daman, Dadra & Nagar Haveli.
Heavy rain may also affect Patan, Mehsana, Aravalli, Dang, Tapi, Rajkot, Jamnagar, Porbandar, Junagadh, Morbi, Dwarka, Gir Somnath, Kutch, and Diu.

As per IMD, a trough runs from the northeast Arabian Sea to the cyclonic circulation over south Jharkhand and its neighbourhood at 3.1 km above mean sea level, contributing to the ongoing heavy rain activity across Gujarat. DeshGujarat