Rain hits parts of Saurashtra

Rajkot: Heavy rains lashed parts of Saurashtra and Kutch regions after a brief dry spell on Saturday. Kalyanpur taluka in Devbhoomi Dwarka recorded 136mm or rain till 8pm on Saturday.
Bhuj, Anjar, Rapar talukas of Kutch also reported medium to heavy rainfall.
The state has received around 124% of average annual rainfall this season so far, according to the State Emergency Operation Centre (SEOC), Gandhingar.
The India Meteorological Department's Ahmedabad centre has said between Monday and Wednesday, parts of Saurashtra and south Gujarat regions are likely to receive heavy to very heavy rainfall, as well as light to moderate rainfall in many parts of the district over the next five days.
A few villages of Kalyanpur and many roads in Bhuj and Gandhidham town of Kutch were left waterlogged for several hours due to heavy downpour.
Bhuj and Anjar talukas of Kutch district received 89mm and 55 mm rainfall respectively.
With this, Gujarat has so far receive 1,027.19 mm rain, which is 123.61% of average annual rainfall, it said.
Kutch district received 257.58% of annual average rainfall of 412 mm, followed by Saurashtra with 166.41%, north Gujarat 107.85% and south Gujarat 105.21%, the SEOC said.
However, east central Gujarat has got just 90.63% of average annual rainfall.
SOEC data showed that out of 1027.19 mm rainfall the state has received so far during the current season, 644.51 mm was received in August alone. A majority of the 251 talukas in the state have received over 500 mm rainfall, with 102 of them getting over 1,000 mm, while 18 talukas have seen rainfall between 251- 500mm.