It rained like cats and dogs in the State capital on Monday evening. In just one hour, the meteorology department recorded 7 cm rainfall in Bhopal and 5 cm in the Bairagarh observatory.
Met officials claimed that a system has developed that completely changed the weather in the city. In the next 24 hours, heavy rain is expected in Bhopal, Gwalior, Chambal, Indore and Ujjain divisions.
Since morning, the sky was covered with clouds and at around 11 am it became dark and within half an hour all the clouds vanished after heavy rain. later, it had been sunny day.
However, the weather took an abrupt change again in the evening and dark clouds started gathering in the sky. Within a few hours, it became dark again and it started raining at around 5 pm. It rained cats and dogs for around one hour and disrupted the whole traffic system in the city.
Almost all the main roads of the city were inundated and the vehicle owners faced problems in reaching their destination. Traffic jam was witnessed on almost all the main roads as four-wheelers made bumber-to-bumber lines. The vehicles took more than two hours in crossing the busy squares of the city like Board Office Square, Jyoti Talkies Square, DIG Bungalow Square, Saifia College Road, VIP Road and other parts of the city.
A similar condition was witnessed at Banganga Square, where the Banganga bridge had submerged in the rainwater. long queues of vehicles were seen at several parts of MP Nagar, district court area, District Collector's office to Polytechnic Square and other parts. To add woes to the city dwellers the power also went off while it was raining heavily. Complaints of power failure were reported from almost all parts of the city including new and old city, Bairagarh, BHEl and other parts of the state capital.