Gandhinagar: Gujarat on Sunday witnessed widespread rains across as many as 173 talukas. As many as 75 talukas had over one inch rain. Khambhalia in coastal Saruashtra’s Devbhumi Dwarka district had whopping 18 inch rain during 8 am to 10 pm. Of this 11 inch rain was witnessed only during 6 to 8 pm in the evening.

Coastal Saurashtra’s Ranavav and Porbandar talukas and Debhumi Dwarka district’s Kalyanpur received nearly 7 inches of rain during the day.

Sutrapada, Visavdar, Kutiana received more than 4 inches of rains.

IMD had predicted isolated extremely heavy rainfalls in Gujarat region on 4-5 July due to high convergence of strong moist westerly/southwesterly winds from the Arabian sea along west coast and cyclonic circulation over south Gujarat & neighborhood in lower tropospheric levels.

Statistics of 6 am to 10 pm period, taluka-wise are given below:

 

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