Rain, hailstorm bring in chill; city shivers at 60C

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With the abrupt change in weather, the citizens in the State capital and other parts of the State are facing extreme cold conditions. After Monday’s rain and hailstorm, it again rained at several places on Tuesday.

With this, the day temperature dipped 6 degree Celsius below the normal temperature after heavy rainfall on Monday night; city witnessed 2 cm of rainfall in the past 24 hours which resulted into dark cloud cover and fog in the morning on Tuesday. 

For the second consecutive day several areas have witnessed heavy rainfall in the past 24 hours. The weather conditions would clear from Thursday as the weather conditions are going to remain the same for the next 3-4 days and after the clearance of the cloud cover the temperature would witness dip and later the temperatures would rise. Cloud cover would be witnessed for 2-3 days and till the cloud cover would clear the state could witness rainfall and hail storm.

Abrupt change in the weather conditions in the past 3-4 days continue at harsher levels with dark cloud cover.

Met department official told that good moisture incursion from Arabian Sea and Bay of Bengal and system of eastern part of the state which has induced the cloud cover, rainfall and hail storm.

The day temperature was recorded at 18.7 degree Celsius which was 6 degree Celsius below the normal temperature while the night temperature was recorded at 14.7 degree Celsius which was 5 degree Celsius above the normal temperature.

Warning of light to dense fog in different parts of the state has been issued by the Met department. Dense fog would be witnessed in Chambal and Rewa divisions and Gwalior, Datia, Shivpuri, Tikamgarh, Chhatarpur, and Panna districts in the next 24 hours.

The northern region of the state would witness medium fog while the southern part of the state would witness light fog in the next 24 hours claimed the warning issue by Met department. Cold conditions turned harsher after heavy rainfall in the evening on Monday.

Damoh recorded 2 cm of rainfall, Umaria, Tikamgarh, Sehore, Shajapur, Chhatarpur and Ujjain recorded 2 cm of rainfall in the past 24 hours. The lowest night temperature was recorded at 7 degree Celsius in Shivpuri.

Among the major cities Indore recorded at 22.3 degree which was 4 degree Celsius below the normal temperature. Gwalior recorded day temperature at 15.6 degree Celsius which was 6 degree Celsius below the normal temperature while Jabalpur recorded day temperature at 19.6 degree Celsius which was 5 degree Celsius below the normal temperature.

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