It was a relief for the citizens in the State capital and other parts of the State, as the heavy and incessant rainfall across the states that had thrown life out of gear, stopped on Wednesday.
The rain started from the night of August 14, which continued till August 16. The state capital received 6.5 inches of rain in the past two days.
According to Met Bhopal received the highest rainfall of 4.93 inches on August 15 after 49 years. Earlier this happened in 1973. The rainfall figure in the capital reached 51 inches.
On Sunday, depression reached Madhya Pradesh via Odisha, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh. It brought a lot of moisture from the Bay of Bengal. The Monsoon Trough of Guna and Jaisalmer in MP was passing over this system and this was the first such system of the season which reached at a speed of 25 kmph in MP and because of this, it rained heavily for 2 days.
Damage to soybean, vegetable crop, benefit to paddy has occured due to this abrupt rainfall.
The Met told that there will be no continuous rain, because on Tuesday, this monsoon system has shifted to East Rajasthan and adjoining East Madhya Pradesh area, because there is a lot of moisture in the atmosphere.
Narmada, Chambal, Betwa, Tapti, Shipra are swollen. The gates of many dams have to be opened. The Meteorological department has issued a flood alert in Guna, Rajgarh, Agar Malwa, Ratlam, Neemuch and Mandsaur districts. In Narmadapuram, the Narmada is flowing just one and a half feet below the danger mark of 968 meters.
Due to the strong current in Narmada, water is being released by opening 13 gates of Bargi dam in Jabalpur and 5 of Tawa dam in Narmadapuram.
In Vidisha more than 1400 people were rescued, 19 villages affected by Betwa in Vidisha.