Bhopal

Heavy rain lashes Bhopal

Staff Reporter

Day which started with hot and humid conditions witnessed rainfall in the afternoon and heavy showers lashed the State capital in the later part of the day; intermittent rainfall was witnessed in the evening and continued till late night. 

Bhopal recorded over 3 cm of rainfall till the evening and heavy downpour continued  till the night. The speedy winds and thundery activities uprooted trees in Bhopal. Tree fell over vehicles at Satpuda Bhawan in the evening.

Across the State, heavy rainfall is likely to be witnessed and it has been warned b Met department by issuing warning of very heavy rainfall, thundery activities and thunder lightening in Rewa and Shahdol divisions and Raisen, Sehore, Hoshangabad, Harda, Dhar, Dewas and Shajapur districts.

The Met department has issued warning of thundery activities and thunder lightening in Jabalpur, Sagar, Gwalior and Chambal divisions and Vidisha, Bhopal, Rajgarh, Betul, Burhanpur, Khandwa, Khargone, Badwani, Alirajpur, Jhabua, Indore, Ratlam, Ujjain, Agar, Neemuch and  Mandsaur districts.

The regions which recorded heavy rainfall in the day were Khargone which recorded 11 cm of rainfall, Sidhi recorded 6 cm of rainfall, Guna recorded 2.6 cm.

The East Madhya Pradesh region is likely to receive heavy to very heavy rainfall in the next 48 hours. The trend of heavy rainfall would continue for the next three days. In the West Madhya Pradesh, region thunder-storm and lightening are likely to be witnessed in the next 24 hours.

Shahdol, Jabalpur, Bhopal and Hoshangabad regions have received heavy rainfall at most of the places while few regions in Bhopal division witnessed rainfall. Under the changed pattern of weather rainfall has dipped the temperatures still few divisions recorded increase in the temperature.