PINAKI MAJUMDAR
Jamshedpur, June 8: IMD’s Ranchi Meteorological Centre issued a warning of heatwave at isolated places over eastern and adjoining central parts of the state today.
The Meteorological Centre also predicted heatwave at isolated places over southern, north-eastern and adjoining central parts of the state tomorrow, June 9.
Weathermen said Loo would also prevail in various parts of the state for the next three days.
Godda topped the Celsius chart with 43.4 degree Celsius during the past 24- hours while Daltonganj and Garhwa with 42.9 degrees Celsius recorded the second highest temperature.
Jamshedpur and other parts of Kolhan recorded around 42 degrees Celsius on Wednesday and Ranchi recorded 40 degrees Celsius.
Almost all the districts recorded over 40 degree Celsius during the past 24- hours.
Satellite pictures suggested that the trough from northeast Madhya Pradesh to North Interior Karnataka was running from north Chhattisgarh to north interior Karnataka across Telangana at 0.9 Km above mean sea level.
Monsoon Updates
Southwest monsoon continue to loiter over the Comorin region and Sri Lanka. It was struggling to advance into mainland India.
Weathermen said fresh developments over the Arabian Sea are further inhibiting its pace and intensity.
Southwest monsoon had earlier arrived over extreme southern parts of the Bay of Bengal on May 19, a little before the normal date.
However, it made a dead stop for over 10 days and got delayed over Andaman & Nicobar Islands. Thereafter, the cascading effect is taking a toll and the monsoon stream is yet to make a forceful entry over mainland India.
