Heavy showers were witnessed on Sunday evening in the state capital and remained for few hours. Rainfall on Sunday remained lull except few places and most of the places received rainfall but little and for brief period.
Cloud cover was present throughout the day but it was only in the late afternoon that the raining started and heavy rainfall was witnessed for around an hour. City received 1 cm of rainfall on Sunday and among the nearby areas Hoshangabad received light showers.
Udaipura received 17 cm, Bareli received 12 cm of rainfall, Sehore received 8 cm of rainfall, Pachmari received 7 cm of rainfall, Rewa and Chhindwara received 6 cm of rainfall in the past 24 hours.
Warning of heavy rains in Rewa, Shahdol, Sagar and Jabalpur divisions has been issued by the Met department. In the next 24 hours rainfall across the state would be witnessed and heavy rainfall would follow after 2-3 days.
Met department officials told that the day temperature would be witnessed around 30 degree celsius while the night temperatures would be witnessed around 22 degree celsius.
The Met officials have told that the good rainfall might make up for the deficit in the month of July only and good rainfall would be witnessed in the next month also.
City would witness less rainfall in the next 24 hours and a system which would be witnessed over Bay of Bengal would induce heavy rainfall the next 2-3 days.
Among the major cities Jabalpur received 2.6 cm of rainfall and Gwalior received 9 mm in the past 24 hours. The temperatures across the state have dipped and are reeling around 30 degree celsius.Among the major cities Gwalior recorded day temperature at 33.7 degree celsius, Jabalpur recorded day temperature at 26.2 degree celsius. Day temperature in the city was recorded at 28.5 degree celsius while the night temperature was recorded at 22.5 degree celsius.