The State got the gift of heavy rains on Eid Eid-ul-Fitr that was celebrated on Saturday. Heavy rains in eastern Madhya Pradesh, State Capital Bhopal and its surrounding places that started since Friday evening brought smiles on the faces of farmers.
The pause in the rains since last few days has raised alarm bells for Soybean and other crops but the good rains on the occasion of Eid provided relief to the people and farming community of the state.
According to the Met office a system of air is active over western Rajasthan while another cyclone is also active over the Bay of Bengal, together these systems are causing rains in the state. It is expected the rains would conditions for next twenty four hours. While the met department has warned of heavy rains at one or two places in the state.
The rains that started since yesterday evening continued to lash the city since filing of this news. The city recorded a rainfall of 23.8 mm in the night that is second highest in the state during the past twenty four hours; Jabalpur tops this chart with 26.8 mm while Indore that remains completely dry during this period is at the bottom of this chart. Guna recorded 14.8, Gwalior, 7.9, Hoshangabad 6, Khajuraho 2.8, Sagar 0.4, Pachmari 1 and Satna recorded 1.3 mm of rains during the past twenty hours.
Water was logged on many roads of the city due to heavy rains. A total of 263.2 mm of rains have been registered till now in this season in the city. The minimum temperature of the city dropped by 2 degrees in the city and was recorded at 24 degree Celsius.
According to the met office the ongoing rains in the state would continue till July 22.