Bhopal: Light showers cool city a bit

Bhopal: Light showers cool city a bit

Staff ReporterUpdated: Thursday, May 30, 2019, 06:57 AM IST
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BHOPAL: People of Bhopal got a brief relief from scorching heat and rising temperature on Tuesday as light showers drenched the city along with weak dirt-storms. The city was having clear skies at noon till 2 pm after which clouds started looming over the city followed by dirt-storms and light showers in the evening at 6 pm.

The maximum temperature recorded on Tuesday was 41.3 degrees C while the minimum till 5.30 pm was recorded at 25.6 degrees C. The maximum temperature recorded on Tuesday was 2 degrees C less than the one recorded on Monday. The highest temperature recorded in the state was in Nowgaon at whopping 47 degrees C.

Officials of Indian Metereological Department (IMD), Bhopal have earlier termed the light showers and dirt-storms are part of the pre-monsoon activities and would continue till May 20 after which Monsoon is expected to enter the state.

“These pre-monsoon activities would not cause much change in the temperature in the next two days. These activities which are going on since last few days are because of a cyclonic development over north-west and central Madhya Pradesh. On Wednesday, the temperature is expected to be 42 degrees C with dirt storms and light showers during evening,” said director of IMD, Bhopal, Anupam Kashyapi adding that there would also be light showers in Bhopal, Jabalpur, Ujjain and Indore divisions in the state.

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