Heavy rainfall in Ahmedabad on Tuesday, roads waterlogged

According to the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation data, recorded for each hour from 6 am to 11 am, the heaviest downpour was recorded between 9am and 10am.

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Gujarat has already recorded 113.5% average rainfall this monsoon season. (File)

Ahmedabad woke up to a heavy downpour, overcast skies with thunder and lightning early Tuesday morning, leading to waterlogging. The city received around two inches rainfall from 6 am to 11 am.

Gujarat has already recorded 113.5% average rainfall this monsoon, with 149 mm rainfall received during the month of September.

According to the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation data, recorded for each hour from 6 am to 11 am, the heaviest downpour was recorded between 9am and 10am. The east zone, which includes areas of Odhav, Viratnagar and Chalukya, recording an average of 44.83 mm rainfall for the hour.

With the latest downpour, the total seasonal rainfall of the city is recorded to be 27.46 inch — that is, a little over two feet of rainfall.

Hitesh Contractor, city engineer incharge at AMC, informed that all underpasses in the city are functional and open for traffic despite the heavy rains.

The widespread rains lashed other parts of the state too, majorly hitting the southern districts including Navsari and Surat that received heavy rainfall Tuesday morning.

Sutrapada in Saurashtra’s Gir Somnath district received 91 mm rainfall during these early four hours while Dehgam in Gandhinagar district received 75 mm and Malpur in Aravalli district in the north received 58 mm rainfall.

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According to India Meteorological Department forecast, the southern districts of Gujarat and Saurashtra will continue to receive very heavy rainfall on Tuesday. Very heavy rainfall is also likely in the districts of Dang, Navsari, Valsad, Tapi, Surat, Amreli and Bhavnagar.

Further, heavy rains are very likely at isolated places in the districts of Aravalli, Anand, Vadodara, Dahod, Mahisagar, Chhota Udepur, Narmada, Bharuch and Surat; in the districts of Rajkot, Jamnagar, Porbandar, Junagadh, Dwarka, Gir Somnath in Saurashtra-Kutch, and in Diu, Surendranagar and Morbi.

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