Heavy rain continue in MP, Met predicts more

Bhopal : Heavy rain continues to lashes many part of Madhya Pradesh. The state has recorded 11 per cent excess rainfall this monsoon. Till last week it was nine per cent.

According to Met officials, the state received 676 mm of rainfall since June 1 against the expected 608.9 mm. Twenty districts in the eastern part of the state, however, received normal rains. Together they received 679.6 mm rainfall against an expected 679.1 mm.

Thirty districts of the western part of the state received 22 per cent excess rains at 673.2 mm against an expected 554.2 mm, Met sources said.

Till the last week of July, the state was facing 16 per cent deficient rainfall, but almost continuous and sometimes very heavy rains during the last three weeks changed the situation and brought the state in excess rain category.

The weekly Met rainfall report shows that despite excess rains in most parts of the state, some pockets are still deficient and a few districts received below normal rainfall. The four worse districts are Umaria with 37 per cent deficient rains, Barwani (32 per cent), Balaghat and Sagar (27 per cent each).

The four districts which received very heavy rainfall were Harda with 88 per cent, Betul (72 per cent), Hoshangabad (56 per cent) and Singrauli (47 per cent). Met sources said the low pressure area developed over the Bay of Bengal was likely to move towards the state soon and heavy to very heavy rainfall would lash east MP and would move later to the