Heavy rains lashed the city in the evening on Monday while hailstorms were witnessed in the outskirts and nearby areas. Cloud cover witnessed throughout the day poured in the evening and the downpour brought the temperatures down by a few notches.
The city witnessed light rainfall early in the morning on Monday. Abrupt changes in the weather conditions which were witnessed for the past three days finally brought heavy rainfall on Monday evening.
The weather conditions would remain the same in the next 2-3 days. Shahdol, Rewa, Sagar and Jabalpur divisions and Ratlam, Rajgarh, Agar and Bhopal would witness rainfall in the next 24 hours.
Warning of fog and cold wave conditions have been issued by Met department.
Morena, Bhind, Gwalior, Datia, Shivpuri, Tikamgarh, Chhatarpur, Panna and Satna districts have been issued warning of fog in the next 24 hours while warning of cold conditions in Morena, Bhind, Gwalior and Datia districts in the next 24 hours has been issued.
Met officials claimed that a few regions have witnessed hailstorms while several regions witnessed heavy rainfall in the past 24 hours. Sagar and Jabalpur witnessed heavy rainfall in the past 24 hours and recorded 10 mm rainfall.
The system over western region of the State would move towards east which would mark the weakening of the system and the conditions would attain a normal weather pattern.
Among the regions Jalajkhedi in Ujjain district witnessed hailstorm in the evening and Sehore witnessed hailstorms in the afternoon. On Monday, the regions which recorded significant rainfall were lakhnadon in Seoni district 13.3 mm, Raisen 7.4 mm, Chicholi 5.1 mm and Anuppur 6 mm.
The wind confluence in central India from Arabian Sea and Bay of Bengal has made the weather change and would maintain the weather conditions in the next 3-4 days. Hoshangabad had day temperature at 26.2 deg C while the night temperature was 15.4 deg C. The past two days rain provided relief to farmers but hailstorms caused damage to the crops.