Rain alert issued in 4 districts; Alirajpur, Dhar, Barwani, and Khargone

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Rain alert issued in 4 districts; Alirajpur, Dhar, Barwani, and Khargone

The weather forecast department has issued a heavy rain alert for four districts of Indore division Alirajpur, Dhar, Barwani, and Khargone on Sunday.

Light rain is expected in Bhopal and Jabalpur, while other districts may see thunder, lightning, strong winds, and light rain. On Saturday, heavy rain was recorded in Bhopal, Jabalpur, and Narmadapuram.

The monsoon has withdrawn from Ujjain district, taking the total number of districts where the monsoon has departed to 12. These include Gwalior, Sheopur, Morena, Bhind, Datia, Shivpuri, Guna, Agar-Malwa, Neemuch, Mandsaur, and Ratlam. Parts of Rajgarh and Ashoknagar have also seen the monsoon retreat.

Southern rain impact

According to the Monsoon Department, a trough is passing through the southern part of the state. A depression is active in the Bay of Bengal. Due to this, the spell of rain has started in the southern part of the state.

On Saturday, there was light rain in some places in Bhopal during the day, while heavy rain fell at night. Heavy rain also occurred in Itarsi, Narmadapuram, due to this, 3 gates of Tawa Dam were opened. Itarsi has received 53 inches of rain so far. Narmadapuram city also experienced an hour of heavy rain in the morning.

In Jabalpur, it was cloudy since morning, but there was heavy rain in the afternoon. In the Kasarawad area of Khargone, there was heavy rain with wind for 45 minutes.

The weather also changed in Sarwar Devla, Bhangaon, Utavad, Borawa, Savda, Ojhara areas, Due to this, farmers had to stop picking cotton. Farmers are calling the rain damaging for soybean and cotton crops.

In Betul, Raisen, Rajgarh, Ratlam, Sheopur, Chhindwara, Damoh, Mandla, Narsinghpur, Naogaon of Chhatarpur, Rewa, Sagar, Seoni, Tikamgarh, Umaria, Balaghat, Barwani, the spell of rain continued, heavy in some places and light in others.

It is worth noting that this year, the monsoon arrived in Madhya Pradesh on June 16. The monsoon entered the state one day later than expected.

Now, the monsoon is departing. According to the Meteorological Department, the monsoon will have departed from all districts of the state by October 6.

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