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Mercury up 2 degrees as sun shines
THERE WAS sunshine in the City today after consistent rainfall activity for four days, which raised mercury two degrees above normal. This caused the roads also to dry up, making commuting easier for citizens.
THERE WAS sunshine in the City today after consistent rainfall activity for four days, which raised mercury two degrees above normal. This caused the roads also to dry up, making commuting easier for citizens.
This transition in climatic condition was owing to weakening of low-pressure area, which was earlier over northeast Madhya Pradesh.
This low-pressure area no more exists over the State hence the metamorphosis in climatic condition, informed a senior officer of the Meteorological Department, Bhopal.
According to information received from City weather bureau, maximum day temperature recorded today was 30.6 degrees Celsius, which was two degrees above normal, while minimum temperature was 22.4 degrees, which was normal.
During the entire day today from 8.30 am to 5.30 pm only 1.5 mm of rain was recorded in the City, informed the City weather office. However, from 8.30 am yesterday to 8.30 am today, 9.1 mm of rainfall was recorded in the City.
This year rain god has been slightly more generous towards Indoreans as from June 1, 2006 till today 285.8 mm of rainfall has been recorded in the City, which is 180 mm more than the rainfall recorded in the corresponding period last year.
Last year the City experienced 105.6 mm of rain till July 24, which was considerably less than the current figure. This has put a question mark over the predictions of astrologers that the State would experience ‘Khandit Varsha’ (sporadic rainfall) this year.
Prior to the onset of monsoon there was rainfall in the City during Navtapa (Rohani constellation). Consequently astrologers had opined that monsoon would be below normal in the State and there would be sporadic rainfall unlike the normal monsoon when rainfall is consistent.
However, till date City has experienced considerably greater quantity of rainfall in comparison to last year.
