Weather conditions continue to upset the citizens as after light rains on Thursday evening, Friday remained hot and humid with scorching heat throughout the day. Evening brought a quiet relief from the discomforting weather with dark cloud cover and thunder.
Met department officials claimed that monsoon would hit the city by Sunday which means, the citizens has to tolerate two more days of hot and humid conditions.
Except few regions, state is receiving good amount of rainfall and soon the regions lagging in rainfall would receive monsoon showers, told the Met department.
low pressure area formation over Bay of Bengal, low pressure areas trough line from Rajasthan to Uttar Pradesh and passing over Chhattisgarh and Upper Cyclonic Air Circulation over Arabian Sea would bring light to heavy rains.
Indore, Hoshangabad, Khandwa would receive heavy rainfall and Bhopal and Ujjain regions would receive light showers in the next 24 hours.
The rains have brought the temperature by few notches. Bhopal received 1.3 mm of rainfall in the past 24 hours and recorded day temperature at 35.9 degree Celsius and recorded the night temperature at 24.4 degree Celsius on Friday.
The decrease in night temperature has been witnessed due to the rainfall received by the city on Thursday.
Among the major cities Gwalior recorded day temperature at 43.2 degree Celsius which was the highest among the major cities and was witnessed 2 degree Celsius above the normal temperature.
Jabalpur recorded day temperature at 39.1 degree Celsius and the night temperature was recorded at 25 degree Celsius.
Indore received good amount of rainfall in the past 24 hours. It recorded 3.3 cm of rainfall. Jabalpur recorded 5.6 mm of rainfall in the past 24 hours.