The city on Friday witnessed hot weather conditions with a clear sky that emerged in the afternoon after intermittent rainfall. Met officials have claimed that light drizzle would continue in the city and light showers for brief periods would be witnessed.
Met officials said that the weather conditions would follow the same pattern prevalent in the city for the past three-four days. The city has received 4.1 mm of rainfall on Friday and the total amount of rainfall is 52.79 mm which is 10.55 mm below the normal rainfall. A low pressure area over eastern part of the State has moved over western region due to which less rainfall has been witnessed.
Formation of a system over Bay of Bengal has started due to which moisture incursion in the State would continue and would induce rainfall producing cold weather conditions.
In the past 24 hours, the State did not witness heavy rainfall but, on Friday Sheopur received about 18 mm of rainfall, Umaria and Guna received 3 mm of rainfall respectively.
The Met department said that no significant change would be witnessed in the weather conditions in the next two-three days. Clear sky would be visible which might disappear during the day.
Areas which received heavy rainfall and witnessed swelled rivers and disrupted traffic and transport are relieved due to reduce rainfall activities but few culverts and bridges are still facing overflowing water which might reduce in the next few days.
After several spells of heavy rainfall across the State, there are some regions which are yet to receive normal rainfall. As per the information about the rainfall in districts till August 6, around seven districts have received more than normal rainfall, 14 districts have received below rainfall while 30 districts have received normal rainfall.
The areas which have received more than normal rainfall are Tikamgarh, Sidhi, Khandwa, Burhanpur, Harda, Betul and Shivpuri.
Rajgarh, Katni, Mandla, Khargone, Gwalior, Anuppur, Jabalpur, Narsinghpur, Ashoknagar, Alirajpur, Guna, Hoshangabad, Bhopal, Raisen, Vidisha, Umaria, Datia, Sagar, Damoh, Balaghat, Rewa,Chhindwara, Badwani, Sehore, Indore, Seoni, Shahdol, Dindori, Jhabua and Singrauli are the areas which have received normal rainfall.