Bhopal on Orange alert
   Date :28-Dec-2024

Bhopal on Orange alert 
 
 Staff Reporter
India Meteorological Department (IMD) has forecast thunderstorm with light rain in evening hours for Bhopal on Saturday. The weather is expected to remain cloudy. An orange alert has also been issued by the department for the State capital. Orange alerts have been issued for thunderstorm/lightning/gusty winds (30-40 kmph)/Hailstorm in Bhopal, Vidisha, Raisen, Sehore, Rajgarh, Harda, Burhanpur, Khandwa, Khargone, Barwani, Dewas, Chhindwara, Sagar, Chhatarpur, Tikamgarh, Niwari, Pandhurna, Betul and Narmadapuram. Yellow alerts have been issued in Alirajpur, Jhabua, Dhar, Indore, Ratlam, Ujjain, Shajapur, Agar, Mandsaur, Neemuch, Guna, Ashoknagar, Shivpuri, Gwalior, Datia, Bhind, Morena, Sheopur, Satna, Shahdol, Umaria, Dindori, Katni, Jabalpur, Narsinghpur, Seoni, Mandla, Balaghat, Panna, Damoh and Maihar.
 
According to IMD, maximum temperatures rose appreciably in districts of Bhopal, Ujjain, Rewa, Sagar divisions and no significant changes in the districts of remaining divisions. They rose above normal in districts of Narmadapuram, Rewa, Jabalpur, Shahdol divisions and remained normal in all the remaining divisions of the State. Also, minimum temperatures rose appreciably in districts of Ujjain division and no significant changes in the districts of remaining divisions. Temperature rose appreciably above normal in districts of Jabalpur division; rose markably above normal in districts of Bhopal, Indore, Narmadapuram, Ujjain, Gwalior, Rewa, Shahdol, Sagar divisions. Shallow to Moderate
 
Fog prevailed in Bhind, Morena, Gwalior, Niwari, Chhatarpur Districts. Significantly, the State capital recorded a maximum temperature at 28.5 degrees Celsius whereas the minimum temperature dipped to 16.4 degrees Celsius. The relative humidity levels were recorded at 82 and 62 in the morning and evening respectively. In State, Mandla recorded the highest and lowest temperature at 30.6 degrees Celsius and 11 degrees Celsius respectively. As per the information, western disturbance as a cyclonic circulation now lies over north Pakistan and neighbourhood between 3.1 and 5.8 km above mean sea level with a trough aloft in upper tropospheric westerlies with its axis at 7.6 km above mean sea level now runs roughly along Long. 68°E to the north of Lat. 17°N.The induced cyclonic circulation over southwest Rajasthan and neighbourhood extending upto 1.5 km above mean sea level persists. Subtropical westerly Jet Stream with core winds of the order upto 203 kmph at 12.6 km above mean sea level continues to prevail over Northwest India. A trough runs from north Pakistan to eastcentral Arabian Sea across induced cyclonic circulation over southwest Rajasthan and neighbourhood at 1.5 km above mean sea level.