This story is from June 22, 2020

Porbandar gets season’s first rain, more spells likely

The cyclonic circulation over Saurashtra brought heavy rain to coastal districts of Saurashtra with Porbandar, Devbhumi Dwarka, Kutch and Junagadh receiving significant rainfall since Saturday night.
Porbandar gets season’s first rain, more spells likely
An ashram got flooded in Mandvi
RAJKOT: The cyclonic circulation over Saurashtra brought heavy rain to coastal districts of Saurashtra with Porbandar, Devbhumi Dwarka, Kutch and Junagadh receiving significant rainfall since Saturday night.
All the main markets, roads, farms, rivers and streams were overflowing in these districts which received the first significant rainfall conducive for sowing.
Porbandar town and taluka were pounded by nearly 155mm rainfall in 24 hours ending Sunday 1pm.
Heavy rainfall was also reported from Kutiyana which got 112 mm and Ranavav that recorded 125 mm, said flood control room officials.
This was the first rainfall of the season in Porbandar. For several hours, many areas in the coastal town were in waist-deep waters due to heavy water logging. However, the water flowed away into the sea during the day. In few hours of the morning, Porbandar got 102mm rainfall, according to district flood control room sources.
Picturesque scenes were witnessed in and around Girnar in Junagadh as downpours infusing life into the dried up streams and fresh inflow of water into the rivers and lakes.
Flash flood was reported in Pulku River of Dwarka district's Bhanvar village which was pounded by three inches of rainfall within a few hours on Sunday.
In Khambhaliya, the headquarter town of Devbhumi Dwarka district, was also lashed by incessant rainfall that left the main markets and the roads heavily waterlogged.

Rajula and nearby coastal villages in Amreli district too reeled under a wet spell.
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) predicted more heavy rain in Porbandar, Dwarka and Junagadh on Monday and Tuesday.
On Monday thunderstorm with lightning accompanied with moderate rain and winds gusting up to 40 km per hour are very likely in all districts of Saurashtra, Kutch and Diu and isolated places in Ahmedabad, Anand, Patan and Kheda, Dangs, Navsari, Surat, Tapi, Valsad and in Daman, Dadra & Nagar Haveli.
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