After providing much more than normal fall this season to the State, even the retreating Monsoon clouds brought heavy rain throughout Chhattisgarh Tuesday evening onward disrupting normal life, specially in Capital Raipur and its adjoining district even if Rajpur tehsil located in the northern part of the state registered maximum 73 mm rain in 24 hours till 8 am Wednesday.
According to meteorological department records, Raipur registered more than 20 mm rain, Mana 40 mm, Jagdalpur 19 mm, Ambikapur 18 mm, Pendra Road 15 mm, Durg - Rajnandgaon 1-5 mm while Raigarh, Korba, lormi, Pandariya, Bilha, Bhilai, Dantewada, Bijapur, Sukma and other areas also recorded light to medium rains during the last 24 hours.
In capital Raipur, people had difficulty in venturing out as the city received fresh spell of rain in the morning which continued for more than two hours leading to water logging at several joints on city roads. Due to October 2 being a holiday on account of Gandhi Jayanti, school, college and office goers were however spared from the great inconvenience.
Meanwhile, Met department in its forecast on Wednesday said a low pressure area formed over Odisha and its neighborhood is expected to bring more rains to Chhattisgarh in the next two days. The low pressure area now lies over South Chattisgarh and neighbourhood with associated cyclonic circulation extending up to middle parts of the atmosphere. As a result, moderate to heavy rain and thundershower would occur at many places over Chhattisgarh. Some area would witness heavy to very heavy rain, they said.
The southwest monsoon which usually enters the state between June 10 and 15 this year arrived on July 8 but remained vigorous giving much more than normal share of rains. The latest rains are also considered very useful for paddy crop.