Likely formation of a depression in the Bay of Bengal with associated heavy rainfalls in North Coastal Andhra Pradesh and South Odisha on December 07 and 08, 2017.Due to this river in North Konkan, North Madhya Maharashtra and Gujarat State are likely to rise rapidly. The likely impact of these rains as inferred from rainfall-runoff model run for three days advisory forecast is a likely rapid rise in the river levels in the following basins as under:River Godavari and its tributaries in North Madhya Maharashtra in Nasik district are likely to rise. As the rainfall is likely to affect only a very small catchment area of this basin not much effect will be felt in the river Godavari and its tributaries.Rivers Damanganga and its tributaries in districts of Nasik in Maharashtra, Valsad in Gujarat and Daman in UT of Diu and Daman are likely to rise. However, as the rainfall will be only for one day no major flooding is expected in the basin.River Mahi and its tributaries in Gujarat may rise in association with heavy rainfall in the districts of Mahisagar, Panchmahal, Kheda and Vadodara. However, as the rainfall will be effective for only one day, not much flooding is expected except for some rise in the river in the areas affected by heavy rainfall.River Sabarmati and its tributaries also may not see any major flooding.

Source: Economic Times December 05, 2017 16:52 UTC