After a gap of almost a week, heavy downpours lashed the city on Tuesday, thereby increasing total rainfall tally in the city to over 10 inches during the current monsoon season so far. Though the city’s sky for the past few days had been seen overcast with clouds, heavy rains had been eluding the city. On Tuesday, also, city’s sky remained clouded since early morning.
However, it was only around 11 am that rains finally arrived. What was a drizzle initially, turned into a heavy downpour with almost all parts of the city receiving heavy rainfall in equal proportions. Though exact report about total rainfall in the city had not been received till filing this report, according to meteorological department, with today’s rains, total rainfall in the city during the current monsoon season has exceeded 10 inches, far above than total rainfall received in the city till today during the last monsoon season.
Heavy rains once again brought miseries along with it with almost all the low-lying areas of the city getting inundated. Water-logging chocked BRTS corridor at several places and caused problems to the citizens. Due to water logging, traffic movement in parts of the BRTS corridor got disrupted for fairly long time.
With fresh bouts of rains, water crisis in the city has also eased to a large extent with recharging of ground water and other sources of water.
According to weather office, heavy rains are expected in the district and surrounding areas during the next 24 hours. Besides, Indotre, normal to heavy rains are also expected in Bhopal, Hoshangabad and Jabalpur divisions.