City received heavy spells of rainfall on Tuesday providing relief from humid conditions prevailed for the past 2-3 days. For the past two days city has witnessed good amount of rainfall and recorded 4 cm of rainfall till the evening on Tuesday.
Heavy rainfall for around an hour in the city disrupted the power supply and normal traffic. Several areas went in dark and water logged roads forced the traffic to crawl and huge traffic jams were witnessed stranding commuters for hours.
Forecast made in the past 2-3 days had issued warnings of heavy rainfall for the city but on Monday and Tuesday city has been witnessed in the category of regions with thundery activities and light showers.
Met department has maintained the warning of heavy rainfall at several places due to the active systems over the state and adjoining regions of the state.
Indore, Hoshanagabd and Jabalpur divisions would
witness thundery activities and light showers in the next 24 hours.
Among the major cities, Indore recorded 38.4 degrees celsius on Tuesday while the remaining cities recorded day temperature around 31 degrees celsius.
Madhya Pradesh has been one of the rainiest pockets during the ongoing Southwest Monsoon season. Moderate to heavy showers have been lashing the central state of India at regular intervals ever since the beginning of July. last 24 hours have been no different, with several parts recording widespread rainfall of varying intensity. Betul has recorded 23.2 mm of rain in span of 24 hours from 8:30 am on Monday, followed by Bhopal 11 mm, Guna 20 mm, Pachmarhi 13 mm, Seoni 11 mm, Khandwa 6 mm, and Umaria 5.8 mm.
These rains can be attributed to the cyclonic circulation that was prevailing over West Rajasthan and adjoining Rajasthan. Further, the system will continue to prevail over the region and moderate to heavy showers will continue over West Madhya Pradesh, while eastern parts will witness light to moderate rains for the next 24 hours. Thereafter, the system will move in northwest direction. With this, rains will reduce significantly over the state but North Madhya Pradesh will still receive some rains. At present, Madhya Pradesh is witnessing high surplus rainfall. As on July 25, East Madhya Pradesh is excess by 46%, while West Madhya Pradesh is surplus by 43%.