The clear sky with humid weather conditions prevailed throughout the afternoon bringing in a pleasant change which attracted heavy clouds that poured in the evening providing relief to the citizens. However, the heavy and short intermittent spells disrupted the normal life of the city creating long bee lines of vehicles and traffic jams at several squares and busy market places.
The Met department has issued warning of heavy rainfall in Hoshanagabad, Bhopal, Ujjain and Indore divisions. The suburbs of city, Bairagarh received 6 cm of rainfall on Wednesday.
The water bodies are nearing full tank level due to the heavy rains in the region. The surplus amount of rainfall has been witnessed after nearly two decades and the two gates- number 4 and 5 of the Bhadbhada dam were opened on Tuesday. On Wednesday, one of the two gates was closed and gate number 5 was left open for the whole day to maintain a specific level of water which is 1666.20 ft from the current level of water 1666.80 told BMC official Rajesh Nigam. The city received 8.3 mm of rainfall while financial capital Indore received 1.5 cm of rainfall on Wednesday. Among the major cities Gwalior and Jabalapur received low amount of rainfall at 1.5mm and 2.8 mm of rainfall respectively. The day temperatures of major cities have increased in the absence of break in the rainfall for the last 24-36 hours. Gwalior recorded a maximum day temperature of 36 degree Celsius.