South Gujarat districts receive heavy rains; more showers likely

Some south Gujarat districts received heavy showers on Tuesday with the states average annual rainfall for the monsoon season rising to 116 per cent on the back of bountiful rains officials saidThe weather office has issued a forecast of heavy to very heavy rains at isolated places in several districts of Gujarat over the next one weekParts of Bharuch Tapi and Surat districts received more than 100 mm rainfall in a 12hour period ended at 6 pm on Tuesday Valia and Netrang talukas of Bharuch district received 156 mm and 127 mm rains respectivelySurats Uparpada and Valsad taluka of Valsad district received 105 mm and 104 mm rains respectively during the period State Emergency Operation Centre SEOC data showedAt 442 mm rains in August in Gujarat surpassed the amount of rain received in July and the seasons average annual rains stood at 11622 per cent the SEOC saidWhile the Kutch region has received the highest amount of average rainfall of 179 per cent so far this season Saurashtra and south Gujarat have experienced 125 and 117 per cent of average annual precipitation respectively according to the dataAt the same time north and eastcentral Gujarat lagged behind with 94 and 113 per cent of average annual rains so far respectively the SEOC saidOn Monday the monsoon remained vigorous over Gujarat with extremely heavy rainfall occurring at isolated places in Bharuch Surat and Tapi districts the India Meteorological Department IMD saidAt the same time isolated places in the districts of Kheda Aravalli Mahisagar Sabarkantha Tapi Bharuch Narmada Navsari Dangs Vadodara Valsad Surat and in Daman received very heavy showers the IMD saidThe weather office has issued a forecast of heavy to very heavy rains at isolated places in several districts of Gujarat over the next one weekMeanwhile the governments weather watch group met at Gandhinagar to review the situation in view of the forecast of light to very heavy rains in Gujarat during the next one week with the relief directorate issuing necessary directions to the departments concerned to stay alertDepartments concerned have been asked to take measures to resolve the issue of flooding and ensure vectorborne diseases do not spread said the officialsThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever