After a long delay, rains lashed several parts of the city on Saturday providing the much-awaited relief from the sweltering heat. The weather took a pleasant turn and the conditions would remain favourable for the monsoon showers in several regions.
Few parts of the city received heavy rains but other regions received light showers in the evening."A low pressure area over Jharkhand induced system is causing rainfall across Madhya Pradesh. Except few regions, rainfall was witnessed across the State on Saturday," told the Met officials.
The system formed over Jharkhand would induce more rains in the eastern parts of
The temperatures on Saturday remained high during the day and the rains would bring the temperature down by few notches in the next 24 hours.
City recorded day temperature at 38.4 degrees Celsius and the night temperature was recorded at 29.9 degrees Celsius. Among the major cities, Jabalpur recorded the lowest day temperature at 33.5 degrees Celsius and night temperature at 25 degrees Celsius.
Met department has not officially announced the onset of monsoon in the State as according to them only after two days of rains it could be decided whether monsoon has arrived.
The Met officials informed that the eastern regions would receive rainfall in the next 24 hours while the Western region would receive rains in isolated places.
Sidhi recorded 21 mm of rainfall, Betul received 19 mm of rainfall, Sagar received 15 mm of rainfall, Satna received 14 mm of rainfall, Rewa received 8 mm of rainfall, Umaria received 10 mm of rainfall and Hoshangabad received 9 mm of rainfall.