After clear blue sky during day, it rained heavily in the evening in State capital on Sunday; heavy rain spell continued to be witnessed at several places across State.
Swollen water bodies have created havoc at several places forcing people to take shelter at safer place untill the water level which has crossed danger-mark at most places recedes. In the past two days little relief was provided at few places, still several places are witnessing flood and water logging conditions and rescue operations and work is going on.
On Sunday, Hoshangabad recorded 1.8 cm of rainfall till evening which was the highest rainfall in the State.
Among the regions which witnessed heavy rainfall in the past 24 hours were Dhar with 7.3 cm, Nowgong 4.1 cm and Tikamgarh with 2.2 cm.
Rainfall activities are very likely at many places at most places over North Madhya Pradesh and at isolated places over South Madhya Pradesh for next two days, after that the Monsoon trough is likely to shift closer to the foothills of Himalayas due to easterly wet winds.
Dry westerly winds are likely to occur instead, resulting in a significant reduction in the intensity and distribution of rainfall activity.
A cyclonic circulation is persisting over Northeast Madhya Pradesh. The spell of heavy rainfall would prevail and would be confined to Rewa and Shahdol divisions and Guna, Datia, Shivpuri, Ashok Nagar, Sheopur Kalan, Bhind, Dhar, Ujjain, Rajgarh, Vidisha, Sehore and Raisen districts.