Gujarat: IMD predicts more heavy winds and rainfall

Monsoon has been unusually active over northwest India in the month of August and this pattern of rainfall is expected to continue in the first week of September, meteorologists said on Thursday predicting extremely heavy rainfall in parts of rain-battered Gujarat at least till Friday.

A deep depression over Saurashtra has caused severe flooding over parts of Gujarat; a low-pressure system over east India brought heavy rains to eastern states; and Delhi-NCR received a few spells of heavy rain with a monsoon trough near Delhi.

Remarking that it is unusual for a system to emerge over land and become a cyclone after it enters the ocean, the official said it is not unprecedented.

This has happened twice in the past including a depression that emerged over Saurashtra and became a cyclone over Arabian Sea, the official said.

The low-pressure over Central and adjoining north Bay of Bengal is likely to cause very heavy to extremely heavy rainfall likely over Odisha, Coastal Karnataka, Kerala and Mahe, and heavy to very heavy rainfall over North Coastal Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Vidarbha and Telangana in the next two to three days.