Heavy rainfall lashed the city making the evening on Friday pleasant after harsh humid conditions during the day. City recorded 7.2 mm and suburb Bairagarh 4.6 mm of rainfall on Friday.
The day temperature was recorded at 40.4 degrees celsius in the city while the night temperature was recorded at 29 degrees celsius. Both day and night temperatures were 4 degrees celsius higher than the normal temperature.
Thundery activities have been witnessed at the end of the last month and early in this month but failed to rain making the weather conditions harsher and discomforting but the change of the weather with heavy rainfall after thundery activities with the advent of the evening.
City sighted a big relief on Friday after heavy rainfall lashed the city in the evening making the weather conditions pleasant.
The state and state capital are yet to witness monsoon rains but the pre-monsoon rainfall was really soothing as it rained heavily and lasted for around one hour and later light shower continued for around an hour.
Road were witnessed flooded with water and massive traffic jams made the commuting difficult in the evening as it was a working day and the office goers found in hard to return to their houses.
Commuters faced hard time as several vehicles broke in the flooded water on the roads. Power supply was interrupted for hours and was resumed later after several hours.
Among the major cities Indore recorded day temperature at 38.2 degrees celsius and night temperature was recorded at 25.5 degrees celsius. Gwalior recorded day temperature at 42.6 degrees celsius and night temperature at 29.3 degrees celsius. Jabalpur recorded day temperature at 39.1 degrees celsius and night temperature at 26.9 degrees celsius.
The highest day temperature was recorded in Gwalior at 42.6 degrees celsius on Friday.
Seoni recorded 1.2 cm, Guna recorded 1.1 cm, Pachmari recorded 7mm, Khajuraho recorded 5 mm while the city recorded .5 mm of rainfall in the past 24 hours.