Heavy rains lashed the city disrupting the normal life and leaving water logged roads and disrupted power supply for hours in several areas of the city.
The low pressure area system over Bay of Bengal which was witnessed over the State has become active and induced good rainfall on Saturday and Sunday. Met officials told that till the evening 5 mm of rainfall was received by the city and after 5.30 pm till late in the evening heavy rainfall was witnessed which was recorded at 26.6 mm. On Sunday thunder lightning and heavy rainfall was witnessed for hours which started in the afternoon and was witnessed late in the evening.
Rainfall for the past three days has brought down the day temperature that was recorded at 29.1 degree Celsius on Sunday while the night temperature was recorded at 23.4 degree Celsius.
The Met department has issued warning of very heavy to heavy rainfall in isolated places in Bhopal, Hoshangabad, Ujjain and Indore divisions while Jabalpur division would receive heavy rainfall in isolated places. The system over Vidharbha formed of low pressure area over and Upper Air Cyclonic Circulation over Rajasthan in inducing very heavy to heavy rainfall in the state would be witnessed. In the past 24 hours, several regions of the state good amount of rainfall.
Ghodadongri received 9 cm of rainfall which was the highest rainfall in the past 24 hours. Other regions which received good amount of rainfall are Petalwad which received 7 cm of rainfall, Thandla which received 6 cm of rainfall, Javad which received 5 cm of rainfall, Raisen which received 4 cm of rainfall while Indore and Betul received 3 cm of rainfall. The day temperatures were witnessed around 29 degree celsius and night temperatures were witnessed around 23 degree Celsius.