Clouds poured late in the afternoon that continued till evening in the city creating a perfect setting for a soothing and pleasant weekend for the city people.A few localities of the State Capital witnessed very short spells of heavy showers while several places witnessed light showers on Sunday.
The cloud cover was witnessed throughout the day but at instances, sun shine was witnessed making the temperature hot and humid for short periods and again retaining the cloud cover with low day temperature.
Met department has issued warning of hailstorm in Rewa, Satna, Umaria, Shahdol, Anuppur, Mandla, Ashok Nagar, Gwalior, Morena, Bhind, Dhar, Ujjian, Indore, Dewas and Bhopal districts.On Sunday, Khargone received 2 cm of rainfall while Dhar reported 5 mm of rainfall.
All the major cities recorded day temperature at around 30 degrees Celsius with Indore recording lowest day temperature at 29.8 degrees Celsius while Gwalior recording highest day temperature at 32.2 degrees Celsius. Night temperatures decreased due to the speedy winds and cloud cover on Saturday which obstructed heating.
Met officials told that the weather conditions have been induced by the passing of Western Disturbance, which creates small systems. The systems were formed over west MP and Gujarat. Several places have reported rainfall and would receive more rains in the next 3-4 days.
The weather conditions would clear after April 15 in the west MP region and by April 16-17, the weather conditions would improve in east MP region. City witnessed day temperature 7 degrees Celsius below the normal temperature at 30.8 degrees Celsius while the night temperature was witnessed at 20.5 degrees Celsius.
Khajuraho and Damoh recorded the highest day temperature at 40 degrees Celsius. Rewa, Satna, Sidhi, Malajkhand, Panna, Sagar , Damoh, Betul, Khandwa, Agar and Raghavgarh received 1 cm of rainfall in the past 24 hours.