The rain god finally smiled on the citizens of Bhopal, as after a lull of around a week, the State capital witnessed drizzling for over four hours in the day on Sunday. Besides, Gurh in Rewa district recorded the highest amount of rainfall at 8 cm in the past 24 hours.
City received brief spell of light rainfall on Sunday. However, heavy rainfall is still awaited at several places after the increase in the monsoon activities in the past 24 hours.
With the increase in the monsoon activities warning of heavy rainfall has been issued by Met department and Rewa division, Tikamgarh, Chhatarpur and Panna districts are likely to receive heavy rainfall.
In the next 24 hours several areas of Rewa and Sagar divisions and Katni, Umaria, Shahdol and Vidisha are likely to receive rainfall while few places in Jabalpur division and Raisen, Bhopal, Rajgarh, Anuppur, Dindori, Hoshangabad, Betul and Ashok Nagar district are likely to receive rainfall.
Kotma, Jobat, Rewa and Khategaon recorded 2 cm of rainfall each while Sidhi, Amarkantak, Datia and Bhabhra recorded 1 cm of rainfall each in the past 24 hours.
Under the changed weather conditions day and night temperatures would be recorded around 30 and 24 degree Celsius. Bhopal recorded day temperature at 28.5 degree Celsius and night temperature at 26 degree Celsius.
Among the major cities city recorded the lowest day temperature and the difference between the day and night temperature remained 2.5 degree Celsius.
The day temperatures of major cities were recorded at higher levels after the rain faded away. On Sunday Indore recorded day temperature at 32.8 degree Celsius, Gwalior recorded day temperature at 39.1 degree Celsius and Jabalpur recorded day temperature at 30.6 degree Celsius.
The rainfall received in the season is below normal and good amount of rainfall would be required for decreasing the deficit.