Good spells of rainfall have been witnessed across the State in the past 24 hours and the city which is still waiting for spells of heavy rainfall is likely to receive heavy rainfall around August 15-16.
Jabalpur continued to receive heavy rainfall and recorded the highest rainfall in the State in the past 24 hours at 11 cm, Khajuraho recorded 8 cm of rainfall, Katni, Suhagpur, Pushprajgarh recorded 5 cm of rainfall each, Sidhi, Rehli, Dindori, Amarkantak and Panna recorded 3 cm of rainfall each in the past 24 hours.
State has witnessed rainfall at several places. Bhopal division recorded rainfall at most of the places while Rewa, Gwalior, Chambal, Hoshangabad, Sagar and Shahdol divisions recorded rainfall at several places.
Heavy rainfall is likely to be witnessed in Jabalpur, Chhatarpur, Vidisha and Rajgarh districts and alert has been issued for these regions by the Met department.
The regions which are likely to receive heavy rainfall in the next 24 hours are Rajgarh, Agar, Vidisha, Neemuch, Shajapur, Sheopur, Guna, Ashok Nagar, Balaghat, Mandla, Tikamgarh, Chhattarpur and Sagar districts.
Met officials told that North East MP is receiving good amount of rainfall and there are less chances of heavy rainfall in the west MP region. Rainfall would be witnessed in the region with light showers. The State has received around normal rainfall. The west and east regions of the State are witnessing 12 percent deficit.
The rainfall deficit in the city is around 20 percent. The rainfall is around normal level as the deficit is not significant and with the end of the season deficit would decrease or would become nil.
According to the forecast few parts of the city are likely to spells are rainfall in the next 24 hours.