PINAKI MAJUMDAR
Jamshedpur, Sept 6: Several parts of Jharkhand are expected to witness rainfall activity for the next two to three days due to the impact of a low-pressure area that formed over the Bay of Bengal.
IMD’s Ranchi Meteorological Centre also issued an alert of heavy rain in southern and some parts of central Jharkhand on Friday, September 8.
The low-pressure area over northwest and adjoining west-central Bay of Bengal off south Odisha-north Andhra Pradesh coasts persists with an associated cyclonic circulation extending up to 7.6 km above mean sea level tilting southwestwards with height.
It is very likely to move nearly westwards across south Odisha and south Chhattisgarh during the next 24 hours.
Thundershowers and lightning are also expected in isolated pockets of Jharkhand today, said weathermen.
The western end of the monsoon trough runs along the foothills of the Himalayas and its eastern end now passes through Najibabad, Lucknow, Satna, Raipur and thence southeastwards to the centre of low-pressure area over northwest and adjoining west-central Bay of Bengal off south Odisha-north Andhra Pradesh coasts.
The trough was today running from cyclonic circulation associated with the low-pressure area over northwest and adjoining west-central Bay of Bengal off south Odisha-north Andhra Pradesh coasts to southeast Uttar Pradesh across Odisha and Chhattisgarh extending up to 3.1 km above the mean sea level.
