From Thursday night to Friday afternoon entire State of Chhattisgarh got a good spell of Monsoon rains. Raipur, Rajnandgaon, Bemetara, Kanker and some other places registered heavy downpour on the third day of Shravan month, while other places also witnessed medium to moderate rains.. Meanwhile, the meteorological department has forecast heavy down pour during the next 48 hours.
According to weather department with the commencement of Shravan month, the State has started receiving incessant spell of rains with some places of Raipur and Bastar divisions getting heavy downpour. Raipur and Rajnandgaon received heavy downpour even on Friday morning as well as in afternoon at the same time Bilaspur and Ambikapur divisions received moderate rains. According to Meteorological department from Thursday night till 8.30 Friday morning Bemetara received 76 mm rains, Kanker 72.3 mm, Dondi 66.0 mm, Durg 59.4 mm, Manpur 58.0 mm, while Bade Rajpur in Sarguja division received 52 mm rains.Other places including Raipur and Rajnandgaon received around 40 mm rains.
According to assistant scientist in Meteorological department J K Ingle, from the last two days a low pressure area existing in the Bay of Bengal and this system has gradually strengthened therefore there is likelihood of heavy rains in some parts of Chhattisgarh. On the other hand, Agriculture Scientist Dr A S R S Shashtri maintained that due to low pressure area in Bay of Bengal almost every area of Chhattisgarh including Raipur is receiving rains and this system is likely to continue for the next 24 hours but as this is time of ‘Matasi’ (preparation of field for paddy sapling transplant) therefore fields are in need of knee-deep water and the present downpour is not enough. If the State gets one or two more heavy spell of downpours, that would be helpful for kharif farming. Meanwhile, heavy downpour not only led to inundation in low lying areas with major rivers like Shivnath, Mahanadi, Shabri, Mingachal etc in spate obstructing transportation at several places on highways, specially in Bastar division, water logging on roads hampered normal traffic on city roads.