Receding water level in the regions affected by flooding due to heavy rainfall has brought relief in the past two days but warning of fresh rainfall in the next 3-4 days would increase the problems in those regions.
Met department officials said that a low pressure area system over Bay of Bengal would induce rainfall after 2-3 days at several regions of the State. City is less likely to receive heavy rainfall and in the next two days the system would follow the same pattern. The day temperature is reeling around 30 degree celsius in the city and would increase by 1-2 degree celsius which would depend on the occurrence of rainfall in the next 24 hours.
City recorded day temperature at 30.9 degree celsius while the night temperature was recorded at 23.4 degree celsius. All the major cities have recorded day temperature above 30 degree celsius on Friday. Bhopal, Indore and Gwalior recorded day temperature 2 degree celsius above the normal temperature while Jabalpur recorded day temperature 1 degree celsius above the normal temperature.
Jabalpur was the only major city to record 6 cm of rainfall in the past 24 hours.
After a lull phase of heavy rainfall Met department has issued warning of heavy rainfall in the next 24 hours in Balaghat, Mandla, Seoni, Jabalpur, Ashok Nagar and Narsinghpur.
According to the forecast thunder showers and light rainfall would be witnessed in Jabalpur division and Vidisha, Raisen, Sagar, Damoh, Dindori, Anuppur and Hoshangabad districts.
In the past 24 hours Seoni received 12 cm of rainfall, Dewri received 9 cm of rainfall, Kotma and Katangi received 7 cm of rainfall, Damoh recorded 5 cm of rainfall, Amarkantak and Rehli received 3 cm of rainfall and Sagar, Narsinghpur, Khajuraho, Sohagpur each received 2 cm of rainfall and Dindori and Panna each received 1 cm of rainfall.