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The day temperatures are lowered but humidity is very high and nights are around 27 °C (81 °F). Most of the rainfall occurs in this season, and the rain can cause severe Floods. The sun is often occluded during the monsoon season. Though mostly dry, it is desertic in the north-west, and wet in the southern districts due to a heavy monsoon season.
Thunderstorms are another important part of the Rajkot weather in the months of June and July. During summer time, the temperature ranges between 24 and 42 °C (75.2 and 107.6 °F). In the months of winter, Rajkot temperature varies between 10 and 22 °C (50.0 and 71.6 °F) but on a whole winters are pleasant. [14]
Rajkot Airport, located near Rajkot city provides air connectivity with Mumbai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Bangalore, and Goa. The only port of this district was the Port of Navlakhi, an all-weather lighterage port located on the southwest end of the Gulf of Kutch, which now belongs to Morbi district that was introduced later.
[17] [18] By 3 September 2024, Gujarat received almost 118% of the rainfall of the season. Kutch recorded more than 180% of the rainfall, while North Gujarat was around 94%. [19] Vadodara, Jamnagar, Dwarka, Rajkot, Morbi and Bhuj cities were affected. Vadodara was heavily flooded due to rapid rise in the Vishwamitri river.
These large amounts of rain falling in a short period of time resulted in flooding in Saurashtra region. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] Torrential rains battered Gujarat, with peak accumulations of 636 mm (25.0 in) in Bagasara, 511 mm (20.1 in) in Dhari, and 400 mm (16 in) in Variyav.
During the Triassic period of 251–199.6 Ma, the Indian subcontinent was the part of a vast supercontinent known as Pangaea.Despite its position within a high-latitude belt at 55–75° S—latitudes now occupied by parts of the Antarctic Peninsula, as opposed to India's current position between 8 and 37° N—India likely experienced a humid temperate climate with warm and frost-free weather ...
On 8 August, Jamnagar reported 269 millimetres (10 inches) of rain [1] and fresh flooding was reported in Gujarat. [10] By the next day, nine people had been killed [1] and more than 400 villages were cut off. [21] By 10 August, more than 22,000 people were displaced [22] and health workers were disinfecting the worst-hit areas. [12]
2017 Gujarat flood: Following heavy rain in July 2017, Gujarat state of India was affected by the severe flood resulting in more than 200 deaths. [15] August 2018 Kerala Flood: Following high rain in late August 2018 and heavy Monsoon rainfall from August 8, 2018, severe flooding affected the Indian state of Kerala resulting over 445 deaths.