Several regions have witnessed heavy rainfall from Sunday and more rains are likely to continue in the next 3-4 days, while Bhopal remained rainless which increased the day temperature by few notches.Nearby regions of the city has witnessed heavy rainfall in the past two days disrupting the normal life. Several places witnessed flood like conditions and sub merged roads and culverts disconnected the road traffic. Over flowing small water bodies and nullah claimed several lives and are still posing threat to the visitors and commuters.
City recorded day temperature at 30.4 degree Celsius while the night temperature at 23.8 degree Celsius. City recorded 741.1 mm of rainfall which is 95 mm more than the normal rainfall. Among the nearby areas warning of heavy rainfall in Vidisha and Sehore district has been issued.
On Monday morning a pick-up van transporting cattle illegally stuck at a bridge and after two hours of hard efforts by police personnel he was rescued.
Warning of heavy rainfall in Khandwa, Burhanpur, Betul, Harda, Mandsaur, Sheopur Kalan, Shivpuri, Guna, Rajgarh, Agar, Vidisha, Sehore, Hoshangabad, Ujjain districts has been issued by Met department.
Met department has issued warning of heavy rainfall across the State and issued warning of restrain from visiting hilly areas and small ponds, rivers and nullahs areas for picnic as these areas are prone to accidents due to the heavy rainfall.
Alert for few districts has been issued by Met department in which the heavy rainfall would create flood like situations and low lying areas would sub merge in Shivpuri, Harda, Betul and Bhind districts.
State is receiving good moisture from Upper Air Cyclonic Circulation system over Punjab. System over Rajasthan extending upto Bay of Bengal is inducing good rainfall across several regions of the State.
lakhnadon of Seoni district received the highest rainfall in the past 24 hours and recorded 13 cm of rainfall. Mehgaon received 12 cm of rainfall, Sironj received 9 cm of rainfall, Narsinghgarh received 7 cm of rainfall, Garoth received 6 cm of rainfall, Budhni and Shivpuri received 5 cm of rainfall.
