With the movement of monsoon towards southern parts of the State, hot and humid conditions continue to make weather conditions harsher in the State capital.
After rainfall shied away for the past three days hot and humid conditions were witnessed in the city on Tuesday. Cloud cover was witnessed during the day and later when the cloud cover faded away intense hot weather conditions were witnessed.
Met officials told that a system over Chhattisgarh and Southern Maharashtra have made the situations favorable for the monsoon. The monsoon is likely to arrive in the state within next 3-4 days if the weather conditions remained favourable.
In the next 24 hours few regions in Alirajpur, Dhar, Barwani, Khandwa, Khargone, Burhanpur, Betul, Chhindwara, Seoni, Morena, Bhind, Gwalior and Datia districts are likely to receive thunder showers.
Indore which witnessed heavy rainfall in the past 5-6 days has witnessed lower temperatures and recorded day temperature at 36 degree Celsius on Tuesday while the night temperature was also soothing at 23.6 degree Celsius.
Day and night temperatures are likely to be recorded around 39 and 26 degree Celsius respectively. City recorded day temperature at 39.4 degree Celsius and night temperature at 27 degree Celsius.
Gwalior continued to witness higher day temperatures and recorded day temperature at 42.6 degree Celsius and night temperature at 27.5 degree Celsius.
Jabalpur recorded day temperature of 39.9 degree Celsius and night temperature at 27.4 degree Celsius. Among the major cities Jabalpur recorded 3.2 mm of rainfall while other major cities remained dry.