Intermittent light showers on Wednesday evening made the weather conditions soothing and the day and night temperatures dipped by few notches. Thundery
conditions were witnessed in the evening and later light showers were witnessed across the city.
Met department officials said that the cyclones formed over Arabian Sea and Bay of Bengal and Ashoba Cyclone over Arabian Sea has weakened which has raised hopes of arrival of the monsoon with a slight delay earlier due to the cyclone it was predicted that the monsoon would hit
the state with a delay of couple of days.
Monsoon is likely to hit Jabalpur and adjoining regions of Chhattisgarh around June 16 while the city would witness monsoon arrival by June 18.
Pre-monsoon showers provided relief from scorching heat and which also maintained the day temperature at 38.1 degree Celsius on Thursday while the night temperature was recorded at 25.8 degree Celsius.
Khandwa recorded 9 cm of rainfall , Bhikaagaon area in Khargone district recorded 8 cm of rainfall, Agar and Mhow recorded 7 cm of rainfall and Ujjain recorded 4 cm of rainfall.
light rains were witnessed in the city which was recorded at .4 mm on Wednesday. Jabalpur recorded day temperature at 38.2 degree Celsius and the night temperature was recorded at 29.5 degree Celsius. In the presence of good amount of moisture the humidity reached 70 per cent.
Except Gwalior day temperatures across all the major cities was witnessed below 40 degree Celsius.
Indore recorded day temperature at 32 degree Celsius which was 5 degree Celsius below the normal temperature while the night temperature was recorded at 20.6 degree Celsius which was 4 degree Celsius below the normal temperature. In the past 24 hours Indore received 8.3 mm of rainfall.