After a lull phase, heavy rainfall and thundery activities were witnessed across the state, in sudden changed weather conditions 7 people died in the state.
In the last two days, there was a lot of rain in Bhopal-Indore.
The maximum 4 inches of water fell in Indore. In Indore, 3 inches of water fell in 3 hours on Friday night. In Bhopal after 12 in the night, the clouds poured heavily.
In the wake of heavy rainfall sluice gates were opened at Bhadbhada Dam in Bhopal. Guna, Ratlam, Sagar, Narsinghpur, Ujjain, Malajkhand, Nowgong and Khajuraho also received light rain at isolated places.
On the other hand, 3 died due to lightning in Satna on Saturday afternoon.
According to the Met Department, from today the monsoon system will become active again in the entire state. A low pressure area will form in the Bay of Bengal by Sunday.
Due to this, heavy rain may occur in many areas from Monday. The rainfall would be witnessed in the state for the next 7- 8 days. After this the intensity of rain will decrease.
There is a possibility of heavy rain in Bhopal on the day after 4-5 days. So far, the state has received about 7 percent more rain than normal. Normally, till now there was about 20 inches of rain, while this time it has rained 21 and a half inches.
On Saturday afternoon, three people died in Satna due to lightning, while a young woman was badly burnt. At the time of the incident, all of them had gone to the field to plant paddy, and were having food sitting under the tree.
The situation of below normal rainfall is worse in Rewa, Satna, Sidhi, Singrauli, Alirajpur, Jhabua, Damoh, Panna, Katni, Umaria, Dindori, Tikamgarh, Niwari and Dewas.