Gandhinagar:

The met department today marginally revised its warning in which it has forecast heavy rain in some parts of the state tonight and the two next days while it has issued heavy to very heavy rainfall warning for July 22 and 23.

By evening (6 pm today) 16 places had received over one inch of rain with Bagasara in Amreli leading the table with 3 and a half inches. Umerpada in Surat, Dwarka and Bhuj also saw around 2 inches of rain. A total of 67 talukas had seen rain till evening and spells of heavy rains were predicted at some places overnight.

In the 24 hours ending at 8 am today, 133 talukas of 32 districts had recorded some amount of rain of which maximum around 8 inches of downpour happened in Choryasi of Surat ( district average of 4 inches), Chikhli in Navsari (average 3 inches) saw five inches while in Jalalpore and Navasari 4 inches each, Vapi in Valsad (average 2 inches ) saw 3.5 inches while Umergam received 4 inches of rain.

The met bulletin today said that spells of heavy rain at isolated places across the state including Kutch was likely in next two days and heavy to very heavy on July 22 and 23.

‘Two systems (Upper air cyclonic circulations) one over South Gujarat and adjoining area up to 1.5 km above sea level and the other over Saurashtra Kutch and adjoining North East Arabian sea extending up to 3.1 km above sea level persists,’ the bulletin said.

Continuing high humidity was also indicator of spells of heavy rains.

Meanwhile the temperatures have marginally gone up with most of the places showing sub 30 temperatures a few days back have all gone above 30 mark. Amreli with 35.2°C was highest in this regard. Ahmedabad saw a maximum of 34.2°C and was second highest with it being one notch above normal.

DeshGujarat