PANAJI: The India meteorological department (IMD) has warned of a possibility of very heavy rainfall exceeding 11cm on Wednesday “with isolated and scattered spatial distributions to continue” over Goa for five days.
Fishermen have therefore been advised not to venture into sea for another five days.
On Tuesday, moderate rainfall was experienced over the state with Panaji recording 6cm of rainfall. Old Goa, Mapusa, Pernem, Ponda received 5cms each; Mormugao and Sanguem received 4cms each while Sakhali, Dabolim and Margao received 3cms each.
The control room of the fire services received several distress calls through the day up to 7pm. Of these 17 calls were of road block or damages due to uprooted trees and two calls were for animal rescue.
As on July 20, the weather systems that are significant over Goa are an offshore trough at mean sea level from Maharashtra coast to Karnataka coast, an eastwest shear zone between 4.5km and 5.8km height and a cyclonic circulation over south Gujarat at 3.6 km height.
A low pressure area is also likely to form over northwest Bay of Bengal and neighbourhood areas by July 23, the India meteorological department said.
