PINAKI MAJUMDAR
Jamshedpur, Sept 15: The good spell of rain resulting from the recent depression originating from the Bay of Bengal has brought down the state’s rain deficit to 20 per cent as of today.
Met statistics suggested that against a normal of 913.4 mm of rain Jharkhand has so far received 726.7 mm, a deficit of 20 %.
In Met parlance, a rain deficit of up to 19 per cent is considered as good as normal. Weathermen were hopeful that rainfall activity during the next few days will help further dragging down the deficit figure.
East Singhbhum, West Singhbhum, Ranchi and Bokaro have notched surplus rain. Jamtara, Khunti, Seraikela- Kharsawan and Ramgarh received normal rain while the rest of the other districts were still facing deficit rain.
IMD’s Ranchi Met Centre issued a forecast of light to moderate thundershowers accompanied by lightning in isolated places over the state today.
Today’s synoptic features suggested that the well-marked low-pressure area over Northwest Madhya Pradesh and its neighbourhood with the associated cyclonic circulation was extending up to 7.6 km above the mean sea level.
It is likely to move slowly northwestwards during the next 24 hours and gradually recover northeastwards across southern Uttar Pradesh.
There is a possibility of intensification of the well-marked low-pressure area into a depression over Uttar Pradesh around September 16.
The monsoon trough at mean sea level was today passing through Jharkhand and neighbouring Digha in West Bengal.
