The southwest monsoon covered the remaining parts of west Madhya Pradesh and during the next 48 hours, good rains are likely over northwest Madhya Pradesh. The monsoon has now covered almost the entire Madhya Pradesh and only a small pocket of north Madhya Pradesh is still waiting for the onset of the monsoon.
During the past twenty four hours the state capital Bhopal recorded 4.2 mm rains with minimum temperature of 24.9 and the maximum temperature of the city was recorded at 31.3 degree Celsius.
During last 24 hours from 8:30 am on Friday, Guna recorded 17 mm rain and Betul observed rain of 34.4 mm and Sagar observed rain of 36.8 mm while Khandwa witnessed very light rain. Hoshangabad observed rain of 4 mm, Khajuraho observed rain of 9.8 mm, Jabalpur observed rain of 53.2 mm and Satna observed rain of 2.6 mm.
The rain is expected to pick up pace over parts of East and North Madhya Pradesh during next 2 days. Thereafter, rain intensity is likely to increase from July 4 to July 6 over many parts of Madhya Pradesh. Few heavy to extremely heavy rainfall is also expected over East and Central regions of the state. With this rain, the deficiency in East Madhya Pradesh is expected to go down and may further widen in West Madhya Pradesh in the first week of July.
Few districts of Madhya Pradesh will also witness heavy to extremely heavy rainfall during this period. These regions include the capital city of the state; Bhopal, along with Indore and Jabalpur.
West Madhya Pradesh has received rains at par in comparison to its normal rainfall as on till now, while East Madhya Pradesh was still way behind its normal rainfall. It can be said that Monsoon will remain active over both East and West Madhya Pradesh for at least another 5 to 6 days.
The maximum and minimum temperatures recorded in major cities of the state were Guna 33.1 and 22.6, Gwalior 34.6 and 26.9, Hoshangabad 30.6 and 27.4, Indore 33.6 and 24.4, Khajuraho 32.4 and 26.1, Jabalpur 31.1 and 23.4, Sagar 31.7 and 22.3 and Satna 31.7 and 26.1 degree Celsius.