With a lull of over a fortnight without rains, it is feared that the monsoon season would pass without adequate rains. The city residents on Friday came out of their houses and offered prayers to appease the Rain God.
However, the Met officials are still optimistic that there would be good rains.
They claimed that except for a few places, average rainfall has been recorded across the State and more rainfall is likely to occur in the next 2-3 days. Heavy rainfall is likely to be witnessed around August 16. A system over Bay of Bengal which is likely to form in the next 3-4 days would induce rainfall around August 16 and afterwards.
The city has a deficit of 22 per cent so far. Hot and humid conditions prevailed during the day with a scorching sun in the afternoon. Evening was quite soothing. In the dry period day temperature and weather conditions have made weather discomforting.
In the past 24 hours less rainfall has been recorded across the State. Morena recorded 3 cm of rainfall, Sardarpur, Sewda, Datia and Bichiya recorded 1 cm of rainfall.
A few regions of Jabalpur, Rewa, Sagar, Gwalior, Chambal and Indore divisions recorded rainfall.
Day temperature rose to around 30 degree C mark while night temperatures have provided little relief.
From June 1 to August 11, 20 percent more than average rainfall has been recorded in 4 districts of Madhya Pradesh during the monsoon season this year. There are 26 districts of the State where average rainfall has been recorded. Moreover, less rainfall has been recorded in 21 districts till date. The 556.5 mm average rainfall more than the normal average rainfall 484.0 mm has been recorded till date.
Districts where more than the average rainfall has been recorded include Katni, Rewa, Jhabua and Neemuch.
Similarly, districts which have recorded average rainfall include Jabalpur, Sagar, Panna, Tikamgarh, Chhatarpur, Singrauli, Sidhi, Satna, Indore, Alirajpur, Khargone, Badwani, Khandwa, Burhanpur, Ujjain, Mandsaur, Ratlam, Agar-Malwa, Bhind, Guna, Datia, Sehore, Raisen, Vidisha, Rajgarh and Hoshangabad, whereas less rainfall has been recorded in Balaghat, Chhindwara, Seoni, Mandla, Dindori, Narsinghpur, Damoh, Shahdol, Anuppur, Umaria, Dhar, Dewas, Shajapur, Morena, Sheopur, Gwalior, Shivpuri, Ashoknagar, Bhopal, Harda and Betul districts.