Ahmedabad: Several parts of Gujarat accept very heavy rainfall on Sundays, removing normal life, with 12 talukas seeing more than 100 millimeters of rain in a 12-hour period ending at 6pm, officials said.
State Emergency Operations Center (SeoC) said Lodhika Taluka in Rajkot and Chhota Udepur Taluka in the district with the same name received 180 millimeters of rainfall, followed by 161 mm in Kwant Taluka in the Udepur Chhota, 142 in Kalavad in Jamnagar, and 129 on Kaprada Valsad.
It was said that the area in Botad, Dahod, Panchmahal, Vadodara, Aravalli and Gir Somnath also saw heavy rainfall during this period, added that 197 of the 251 talaskas of the country received rainfall.
Heavy rains in the city of Rajkot cause waterlogging in lowland areas, disrupting traffic and people’s discomfort, he added.
Officials said several roads in the districts in Saurashtra and the Central Gujarat area were overflowing and the dam saw heavy water flow due to rain in the catchment area, which led to many villages around him alert.
In accordance with the Indian meteorological department, rainfall between 64.5 mm and 115.5 mm is considered severe, while between 115.6 mm and 204.4 mm is classified as very heavy.
The center of Ahmedabad IMD on Sunday said the state is likely to experience an active wet mantra until Tuesday morning, and warns fishermen not to explore Arabs outside the north and South Gujarat until July 29, because the weather of the Actival will cause wind at speeds of up to 60 kilometers per hour.
The IMD also predicted heavy with very heavy rainfall until Tuesday morning in remote places in several North and South Gujarat districts and Saurashtra-Kutch.
Incidentally, Gujarat continued to be a shortage of rain so far this season, with only two of the 33 districts that received normal rainfall.
The state so far in this season received 195.3 mm rainfall against normal rainfall 319.2 mm, said IMD.
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