Gujarat: Monsoon to debut on flaming stage

Sporadic rainfall was recorded in several parts of the city on Sunday night, bringing the temperature down.

The city experienced maximum temperature of 40 degrees celsius, which was almost at par with the normal, whereas minimum temperature at 29.2 degrees was 1.3 degrees higher.

The cloudy and humid day gave way to a cooler night, but the Met department officials said that it's part of pre-monsoon activity and the official arrival of monsoon in southern Gujarat is likely on Monday.

Meanwhile, 70 talukas of Gujarat recorded at least 1mm rainfall on Sunday till 8pm with Santrampur in Mahisagar district recording 75mm and Junagadh taluka and city recording 43mm rainfall each. Viramgam near Ahmedabad received 2mm rains.

Conditions are favourable for further advance of monsoon into some parts of north Arabian sea, remaining parts of Konkan, some parts of Gujarat state, most parts of Madhya Maharashtra, entire Karnataka and Tamil Nadu, some parts of Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, West-central & northwest Bay of Bengal during next 24 hours,' mentioned a forecast by the India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Sunday.

The normal date of monsoon onset in Gujarat is June 15.

The Met department officials said that the monsoon is likely to keep the date even as this year the advancement is skewed with several parts of southern peninsula waiting for the arrival of rains.

IMD forecast for the next four days has indicated likelihood of rains in all districts of Gujarat  but it's likely to be light showers or thunderstorm.