Dangerous levels of water bodies continued to haunt people across the state which has received massive rainfall at several places in the season, still few places are around and below normal levels of rainfall in the season.
Under the extreme rainfall conditions due to active systems, the Met Department has issued an alert of flood in some areas of East Madhya Pradesh on Sunday.
The Met said that a low pressure area will start forming in the Bay of Bengal from Sunday, due to this, heavy rainfall is forecasted across the region on August 14 and 15.
Heavy to heavy rain is expected in 24 districts including Bhopal-Indore. Taking cognizance the administration is on alert mode.
On Saturday, many areas of the state continued to hide the sun throughout the day. Light showers occurred in many cities including Bhopal in the afternoon. A maximum of 1 inch of rainfall was reported in Sidhi.
Among other areas Damoh, Narmadapuram, Rewa, Jabalpur, Bhopal, Khajuraho, Satna, Gwalior, Nowgong, Mandla, Ujjain, Sagar, Indore and Betul received rain. Light showers occurred in many areas of the region.
The highest rainfall in the region during the last 24 hours was 2 inches each in Sagar and Sewni. In Mandla 1.5 inches, one inch in Damoh.
Met has issued alert of heavy to very heavy rainfall in Bhopal, Raisen, Vidisha, Sehore, Indore, Alirajpur, Barwani, Burhanpur, Khandwa, Khargaon, Jhabua, Dewas, Agar Malwa, Shajapur, Ujjain, Chhindwara, Balaghat, Narsinghpur, Seoni , Mandla and Sidhi.
Apart from this, light to heavy rain may occur in Katni, Jabalpur, Sagar, Mandsaur, Neemuch, Betul, Harda and Narmadapuram.