PINAKI MAJUMDAR
Jamshedpur, Dec 13: The Met department on Tuesday issued an alert of shallow to moderate fog in Jharkhand, especially in areas located in higher altitudes, for the next two to three days.
Several places in the Chhotanagpur plateau region, Palamau and Santhal Pargana would see shallow to the moderate fog that would reduce surface visibility in early mornings.
“At some places, visibility is likely to fall below a stretch of 1,000 metres,” said a duty officer at the Ranchi Meteorological Centre.
He explained that the fog would be the result of high humidity coupled with low temperature.
Today early morning fog was witnessed in Jamshedpur and other parts of Kolhan, Daltonganj, Simdega and Khunti. State capital Ranchi witnessed shallow fog soon after sunrise.
Head of Ranchi Met Centre Abhishek Anand said dry weather conditions would prevail in Jharkhand for the next few days. “We did not find any significant synoptic features in satellite and chart analysis. Weather conditions will be dry and fair with night readings hovering around two notches below normal in the next two to three days,” he said.
Statistics revealed that Ranchi and Jamshedpur on Tuesday recorded a minimum temperature of around 12 degrees Celsius while Kanke on the outskirts of the state capital clocked around 10 degrees Celsius.
Daltonganj, Khunti and Bokaro too recorded around 10 degrees Celsius.
