Good rainfall might help in making up for the deficit: Met
The weather was pleasant in Madhya Pradesh on Saturday. It rained all past 24 hours in most regions. The city of Bhopal also received good amount of rainfall and Bairagarh, an outskirt of the Capital, recorded 1 cm of rainfall till 8.30 pm on Saturday.
Day temperature in the city has pacified and was recorded at 34.3 degree Celsius while night temperature was recorded at 24.4 degree Celsius. The rainfall has brought the temperatures down by a few notches and with the continuous and long periods of rainfall the temperatures might dip further.
The favourable conditions for monsoon would prevail and induce more rains in the next 24-48 hours. The city received 2 cm of rainfall in the past 24 hours. Going by the predictions, the good rainfall might help in making up for the deficit.
Met officials said that according to the forecast several places in eastern Madhya Pradesh region would receive rainfall while in the western Madhya Pradesh region rainfall would occur at a few places only.
Khandwa recorded 10 cm of rainfall in the past 24 hours which was the highest in the state. Jabalpur, Malajkhand, Betul, Khargone received 3 cm of rainfall and Hoshangabad and Pachmarhi received 1 cm of rainfall.
The highest day temperature was recorded at 43.2 degree Celsius. Jabalpur recorded day temperature at 35.5 degree Celsius. Sheopur Kalan recorded day temperature at 43 degree Celsius. Met department has also issued warning of thunderstorms and rainfall in the next 24 hours in the Rewa division.
Pachmarhi recorded day temperature at 30.9 degree Celsius and night temperature at 19.9 degree Celsius. The day temperatures would be witnessed around 37 degree Celsius while the night temperatures would remain around 25 degree Celsius.