PINAKI MAJUMDAR
Jamshedpur, July 4: A good shower show in the Santhal Pargana region during the past 24 hours brought down Jharkhand’s rain deficit to 40 per cent.
According to Meteorological statistics, against a normal of 216 mm, the state has so far received 130 mm of rain, a deficit of 40 per cent.
Except for Sahibganj, Deoghar, Godda and Simdega all the other 20 districts figured in the rain deficit list.
The monsoon trough at mean sea level was today passing through Firozpur, Karnal, Shahjahanpur, Sultanpur, Daltonganj, Digha, and thence southeastwards to Northwest Bay of Bengal.
The cyclonic circulation over Sub-Himalayan West Bengal and Sikkim is now seen as a trough from Sub-Himalaya West Bengal and Sikkim to north Chhattisgarh across Bihar and Jharkhand at 5.8 Km above the mean sea level.
IMD’s Ranchi Meteorological Centre issued a forecast of thunderstorms and lightning in different isolated pockets during the next 24 hours.
