Bhopal

Rain lashes city, brings relief

Staff Reporter

Heavy rainfall was witnessed in the city on Thursday evening providing relief from hot and humid conditions during the day.  The early morning hours were pleasant due to heavy rains witnessed late in the night on Wednesday night and during the day hot and humid weather conditions prevailed.

City recorded day temperature at 35.8 degree Celsius and night temperature at 24.8 degree Celsius.

Met official told that the movement of monsoon has stalled and the movement could be witnessed around June 10-11 after which the arriving of the monsoon in the state and state capital could be provided.

Indore recorded day temperature at 33.2 degree Celsius and night temperature at 21.2 degree Celsius.

Gwalior recorded the highest day temperature at 40 degree Celsius among the major cities and night temperature at 27.2 degree Celsius. Jabalpur recorded day temperature at 37.9 degree Celsius and night temperature at 25.5 degree Celsius.

Spell of heavy and light rainfall continued to be witnessed in the state for the past 24 hours.

Bagli recorded the highest rainfall 12 cm of rainfall in the past 24 hours, Tarana and Mhow recorded 8 cm of rainfall, Dhar recorded 7 cm of rainfall, Sarangpur and Indore recorded 6 cm of rainfall, Chanderi and Ujjain recorded 5 cm of rainfall.

The highest day temperature was recorded at 43 degree Celsius in Datia.

Met department has issued warning of heavy rainfall in Ujjain, Indore, Dhar, Rajgarh and Khargone districts in the next 24 hours.

In the next 24 hours several places in  Indore and Ujjain divisions and Harda and Betul districts and few places in Bhopal division and Chhindwara, Seoni, Agar, Shajapur, Sagar, Ashok Nagar, Guna, Morena, Bhind, Gwalior and Datia districts are likely to receive thunder activities and light showers.

 Sagar and Indore divisions recorded significant dip in the temperatures while Shahdol, Bhopal and Gwalior divisions recorded dip in the temperatures.