Indore (Madhya Pradesh): With no rains for the last four days, India's Meteorological Department announced the withdrawal of southwest monsoon from Indore and other parts of the state on Saturday. The southwest monsoon has further withdrawn from some more parts of Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat Region, Madhya Pradesh, some parts of Maharashtra and most parts of North Arabian Sea.

The line of withdrawal of southwest monsoon now passes through Nautanwa, Sultanpur, Panna, Narmadapuram, Khargaon, Nandurbar, and Navsari. Conditions are favourable for further withdrawal of southwest monsoon from the remaining parts of Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and some more parts of Maharashtra during the next 2-3 days.

However, the retreating monsoon left the city reeled under the dense fog as the visibility on Saturday morning dropped to 50 meters. According to officials of regional meteorological centre officials, city remained under fog for more than six hours i.e. from 2.30 am to 8.45 am and the visibility remained under 1000 metres during this period.

“The lowest visibility dropped to 50 meters at 5.45 am. Similar conditions will prevail for a week as the city is getting moisture incursion. The temperature will remain the same and it will gradually decrease by the third week of the month,” the Met officials said. Meanwhile, citizens witnessed hot weather conditions in the day as the temperature remained above 32 degrees Celsius which was one degree Celsius below normal while the minimum temperature was 21.5 degrees Celsius which was two degrees Celsius above normal.