Thursday, July 6: Monsoonal rains and the resulting floods have been ravaging Gujarat for over a week now — ever since the southwest monsoon covered the state with much fanfare on June 27. But things really went out of hand on Wednesday, when a car got stuck in a waterlogged underpass in the Nadiad district.
Fortunately, the four occupants were rescued by the fire brigade and made it out of the ordeal largely unscathed. However, a similar fate seems unlikely for the Gujarat state, which is in for more incessant rainfall in the coming days.
Monsoonal winds aside, an off-shore trough persists between the South Gujarat coast and the North Kerala coast. Under the influence of these systems, the western states will see copious downpours until July 10.
According to the India Meteorological Department (IMD), light or moderate widespread rainfall interspersed with isolated heavy to very heavy showers (64.5 mm-204.5 mm) are likely to batter Gujarat state during the next five days, until Monday (July 10).
Further, isolated extremely heavy falls (more than 204.5 mm) are also forecast over the Gujarat region on Friday (July 7) and Saurashtra-Kutch on Friday and Saturday (July 7-8).
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