The Met department has issued warning of heavy to very heavy rainfall across the State in the next 48 hours.
low pressure area over Bay of Bengal has been inducing heavy rainfall across the State. This situation is likely to continue for the next 3-4 days, aided as it is by moisture over Bay of Bengal. The city received 6.7 mm of rainfall while Bairagarh received 12.9 mm of rainfall on Monday. During the last 24 hours, Morena received 20 cm of rainfall which was the highest in the State. Jabalpur received 17 cm rainfall, Udaipura received 16 cm, Mandla 11 cm, Datia 8 cm, while Narsinghpur, Sagar and Tikamgarh received 6 cm of rainfall each.
Jabalpur region has been affected the most due to heavy rainfall in the past 2-3 days. The city has remained disconnected with other parts of the region. Traffic remained suspended on the National Highway, to be resumed hours later. Morena received heavy rainfall, but senior officials of the district administration denied any disruption in traffic or water-logging in the region. Among major cities, Jabaplur received the highest rainfall while Indore received traces of rainfall on Monday. Pachmari recorded 4.5 cm of rainfall on Monday while Khajuraho recorded 4 cm.