After around a week, it rained heavily in the State capital on Sunday. It was a short spell of around 15 minutes, but rains lashed almost the whole city.
Delay in arrival of monsoon made weather conditions hot and humid. However, the pre-monsoon showers on Sunday provided relief to the citizens from the harsh weather conditions. The Met official said that the monsoon arrival would take around a week to hit the state.
The showers witnessed in the state capital where pre-monsoon showers.
On Sunday state capital received 15 mm of rainfall. A system over Gujarat and adjoining areas induced the rainfall in the state capital and other areas of the state in the past 24 hours. These kinds of systems are witnessed in the pre-monsoon period and during the monsoon. The highest day temperature was recorded in Nowgong at 43.2 degree Celsius. Sidhi recorded day temperature at 41.7 degree Celsius while Gwalior, Satna and Khajuraho at 41.4 degree Celsius. In the lull phase which witnessed no rainfall made the temperatures to rise and weather conditions discomforting across the state.
In the next 24 hours Alirajpur, Indore, Jhabua, Dhar and Betul districts are likely to receive rainfall, thundery activities and speedy winds.
The weather conditions would prevail till the arrival of the monsoon in the state capital and state.
According to the forecast the state capital would witness partial clouding and few areas would witness thundery activities in the next 24 hours. The day and night temperatures would be recorded around 38 and 27 degree Celsius respectively.
Hoshangabad division recorded significant increase in the temperatures in the past 24 hours.