Bhopal

Mercury soars without rains

Staff Reporter

Day temperatures rose after rainless weather conditions at several places in the State. City witnessed day temperature at 32.5 degree Celsius which was 4 degree Celsius above the normal temperature.

Rainless weather conditions would be witnessed for the next 4-5 days as hot and humid weather would prevail in the next 4-5 days.

Except few spells of light and heavy rainfall in the last two weeks city remained rainless which increased the day temperature by few notches.

Cloud cover remained throughout the day on Friday making the conditions hot and humid. The early morning hours and late evening hours are soothing.

Several regions have received deficit rainfall but still few regions have been witnessed good amount of rainfall. lateri recorded 5 cm of rainfall, Chhindwara recorded 3 cm of rainfall, Satna recorded 2 cm of rainfall, Annuppur and Ganjbasoda recorded 1 cm of rainfall in the past 24 hours.

According to the forecast Khandwa, Khargone, Burhanpur, Harda, Betul, Indore, Dewas, Bhopal, Vidisha, Sehore, Anuppur, Dindori and Chhatarpur would receive thundery activities and light showers.

Thundery activities and light showers would be induced due to development of local system after heating at several regions.

In the season city has received 955 mm of rainfall which is 44 mm more than the normal rainfall. Met department predicted less than normal rainfall but the city has reached the normal level. The average rainfall of the city in a season is 1060 mm and a deviation

of 19 per cent is considered normal by the Met department.

Absence of any active system over Bay of Bengal and Arabian Sea has caused the changed weather conditions.

low pressure area system over Bay of Bengal and Arabian Sea was formed around 5-6 days ago but the state was not benefitted from the system as it moved towards Jharkhand.