Breaking records of past nine years, the State Capital received the highest rainfall in the month of March. The city has received 21.8 mm of rainfall in the month, till date, and would continue for the next 3-4 days.
Met department has claimed that clear weather conditions would be witnessed around March 18 and within the next 4-5 days the weather conditions would follow the same pattern.
Warning of hailstorm in Bhopal, Ujjain, Sehore, Guna, Jabalpur, Raisen, Narsinghgarh, Hoshangabad, Vidisha, Pachmarhi and Damoh has been issued by the Met department. Heavy rainfall with dense cloud cover was witnessed at several places in the State.
Bhopal received 5.6 mm of rainfall while Indore recorded 2.2 cm of rainfall and Gwalior recorded 1.7 cm of rainfall in the past 24 hours. Western Disturbance over Jammu & Kashmir has created low pressure areas of Southern India and Gujarat due to which a trough is passing over Madhya Pradesh inducing good moisture incursion from Arabian Sea in the state resulting into heavy rainfall and hail storms said Met department officials.
Cloud cover would remain over the city till Tuesday and light showers would be witnessed. Already the day temperature has dipped significantly due to the heavy rainfall witnessed on Saturday.
The night temperature was recorded at 15.6 degree Celsius while the night temperature was recorded 8 degree Celsius below the normal temperature at 22.8 degree Celsius. The day temperature would remain around the same level on Sunday.
In the year 2006 the city received 108 mm rainfall which was the highest in the decade. Among the major cities Indore recorded day temperature at 22.8 degree Celsius which was 11 degree Celsius below the normal temperature.