Ahmedabad, Aug 16: Heavy rain lashed different parts of Gujarat on Tuesday, the Met Department said. Amid the heavy rain, the department will issue an orange alert in eight districts and a yellow alert in seven districts of Gujarat on Wednesday.
Apart from this, an orange alert has also been issued in three districts of south Gujarat.
Heavy rain inundated Ahmedabad since Monday due to which the city is facing water-logging in several areas. Ahmedabad received nearly half an inch of rainfall since Tuesday morning. According to the Met department forecast in Surat, there is a possibility of heavy to very heavy rain in south Gujarat till Thursday. Surat has witnessed heavy rain since Tuesday morning. Two inches of rainfall have been recorded in Varachha since Tuesday morning while three inches of rainfall was witnessed in the Udhana-Limbayat area from Monday evening till Tuesday 6 a.m.
The water in streams has reached dangerous levels due to the heavy rain. The Mithikhadi area of Limbayat has been completely inundated.
According to the forecast by the Met Department, an orange alert was issued in north Gujarat’s Banaskantha and Sabarkantha on Tuesday.
An orange alert has also been issued in Saurashtra’s Jamnagar while a yellow alert has been sounded in Patan, Mehsana, Aravalli, Surat, Navsari, Valsad, Kutch, Morbi, Dwarka, and Gir Somnath. There is a possibility of heavy rain in Surat, Navsari, Valsad, and Kutch in south Gujarat on August 17. In the last 18 hours, 209 talukas received rain, with the highest in Vyara in the Tapi district and Dolwan receiving 5.76 inches of rain.
