Bhopal

Rain returns to Capital, Met dept predicts heavy rain in next 24 hours

Staff Reporter

After a break of two days rains returned to State Capital on Tuesday as the city got wet with light rains that started since noon and lasted for couple of hours.

The Meteorological Department has though predicted heavy rains in the eastern parts of the State during the next twenty four hours.

The State Capital that has received a total of 1241 mm of rains in this season till now received 1.6 mm of rains till 8.30 am on Tuesday.

Rains were also recorded in Jabalpur, Singrauli, Sidhi, Satna, Ujjain and Dewas.

While there are possibilities of heavy rains in Guna, Rajgarh, Agar, Satna, Rewa, Shahdol and other places.

Meteorological Department has warned of heavy to very heavy rains in these districts during the next twenty four hours.

Bhopal, Indore, Mandla, Harda, Hoshangabad, Narsinghpur and Jabalpur districts could get showers with lightening.

India Meteorological Department’s Bhopal Centre director Dr Anupam Kashyapi said that the low pressure system formed near Bangladesh could reach Madhya Pradesh due to that the State could one more witness heavy rains.

Yesterday’s well marked low pressure area over Northeast Madhya Pradesh and Neighborhood, now seen as a low pressure area over the same region. The associated upper air cyclonic circulation now extends up to mid-tropospheric levels, Met Office said in a bulletin here.

The well-marked low pressure area over Central India has weakened into low pressure area and is now marked over North Madhya Pradesh. Another low pressure area is seen over Kutch region of Gujarat and adjoining South Rajasthan.

Now the Monsoon trough is running through these systems across Northeast Madhya Pradesh. With this, moderate showers are likely over West Madhya Pradesh. Isolated heavy spells may also occur over these areas. Meanwhile, scattered light to moderate showers are expected over East Madhya Pradesh.