With rainfall and thundery activities in few regions change in the weather in Madhya Pradesh was witnessed during the last 48 hours, day temperature dropped by 2 to 4 degrees due to cloud cover.
Gusty winds up to 58 km per hour at some places was witnessed. The night temperature has increased in some places and remained low in many districts.
The Met Department has issued an alert of light rain with strong winds at isolated places in 8 districts of the state in the next 24 hours. In the past 24 rainfall was witnessed in Silwani which was highest at 1 cm while Hoshangabad recorded light rainfall on Monday. Apart from this, it rained in many places. The weather will remain like this till May 4.
The temperature will increase and relief during the day due to cloud cover, so the temperature can rise at some places at night.
The maximum temperature on Monday was 44 degrees. Rajgarh, Damoh, Khargone and Nowgong were the hottest. Among the major cities Gwalior recorded the highest temperature of 43.3 degree Celsius. Strong wind alert has been issued with rain in Anuppur, Dindori, Chhindwara, Rewa, Satna, Sidhi, Singrauli and Betul. Winds were blowing at a speed of 58 kmph in Sidhi, 56 kmph in Shivpuri. The wind speed was 44 to 48 kmph in Ashoknagar, Anuppur, Singrauli. In Panna, Damoh, Guna, Neemuch, Rajgarh, the winds were more than 30 km per hour. The wind speed in Bhopal was 24 km. Due to light rain, the mercury dropped for the day across the state. The maximum temperature dropped by 4 degrees in Narsinghpur. Apart from this, there was a decline of 1 to 2.5 degree in Khajuraho, Indore, Ratlam, Naugaon, Rewa, Seoni, Umaria, Bhopal, Rajgarh, Ratlam, Shajapur and Ujjain.
From May 5, the temperature may increase once again.