PINAKI MAJUMDAR
Jamshedpur, Aug 25: IMD’s Ranchi Meteorological Centre issued an alert of heavy rains in eastern parts of Jharkhand today.
The Met Centre also predicted thundershowers and lightning in isolated pockets of Jharkhand in the next two days.
The monsoon trough at mean sea level was today passing through Firozpur, Karnal, Meerut, Azamgarh, Patna, Deoghar, Diamond Harbour and thence southeastwards to east-central Bay of Bengal.
The trough from northwest Uttar Pradesh to south Assam, was today running from northeast Uttar Pradesh to east Assam across Bihar, Sub-Himalayan West Bengal at 0.9 km above the mean sea level.
A cyclonic circulation lies over Sub-Himalayan West Bengal and Sikkim between 3.1 and 5.8 km above mean sea level.
Weathermen said that the monsoon was active over Jharkhand and that it is going to remain active for the next three days.
The state’s rain deficit as of today stood at 35 per cent. Against a normal of 744 mm, the state has so far actually received 484 mm of rain.
