Hailstorm hits the Raigarh region of the state on Friday.
The hailstorm was accompanied by light to medium rainfall, Met office here said.
Hails pounded the region, damaging standing crop of fruits and vegetables as well as the clay-tiled roofs of houses in the rural areas, which was the worst hit, it said.
Meanwhile, in its forecast for the next two days, the regional centre of Indian meteorological department, predicted thunderstorms accompanied by lightning and hailstorms at isolated places of the state.
A trough at 1.5 km above mean sea level runs from north Bihar to southeast Madhya Pradesh across Jharkhand and Chhattisgarh, said weather scientist Dr HP Chandra.
For Saturday too, the met department has predicted light to medium rainfall accompanied by thunderstorms and lightning in some of the places in Bilaspur, Korba, Jashpur, Raigarh, Janjgir and Mahasamund districts of the state, Chandra said.
“Light to medium rainfall in some of the places in the state will bring down the temperature to a great extent,: he said.
Chandra further said that the lowest temperature recorded on Friday in the state was at Pendra, where the mercury dipped to 19 degrees Celsius and the highest was at Rajnandgaon, where the maximum temperature was recorded to be 40.2 degrees Celsius.