Heavy rainfall lashed the city on Tuesday afternoon and continued till the evening making water logged roads and huge bee lines of vehicle creating problems for the commuters.
Cyclonic circulation over Northwest Rajasthan and over Northwest Madhya Pradesh, a trough from this system is extending up to Gujarat where there is another cyclonic circulation. Thus, multiple weather systems will bring heavy to very heavy rainfall over West Madhya Pradesh and parts of East Rajasthan. The low pressure area over North Bay of Bengal is expected to intensify into a well-marked low.
The axis of the Monsoon trough is also reaching up to this low pressure area via Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Odisha which would induce good rainfall over East Madhya Pradesh. Pachmarhi recorded the highest rainfall in the past 24 hours at 18.5 cm.
Most of the regions witnessed rainfall on Monday and Tuesday. City got relief from the heavy rainfall on Tuesday morning and later in the afternoon heavy rainfall was witnessed.
In the season Hoshangabad has received the highest amount of rainfall which was recorded at 110.9 cm of rainfall, Damoh recorded 95.3 cm of rainfall, Mandla recorded 86 cm of rainfall, Sehore and Bhopal recorded 85 cm.
A low pressure area system over northern region of Bay of Bengal would become more intense over the next 48 hours. Moisture incursion in the state is due to a trough from southern Gujarat to Karnatak coast. An Upper Air Cyclonic Circulation over Gujarat and Punjab and low pressure area over Punjab and central Uttar Pradesh.
Warning of very heavy rainfall in the next 24 hours in Indore, Ujjain and Hoshangabad division, Betul, Balaghat, Burhanpur, Khargone, Sehore, Bhopal, Neemuch, Rajgarh, Sagar, Anupur, Dhindori, Gwalior, Guna, Vidisha, Jhabua, Alirajpur, Jabalpur, Seoni, Sheopur Kalan, Shivpuri, Hoshangabad, Harda, Raisen, Chhindwara, Khandwa, Narsinghpur , Sagar, Damoh, Umaria and Dewas districts has been issued by the Met department