RANCHI:
Jharkhand
will receive scattered
rains
in the next four days, the Ranchi office of the India Meteorological Department (IMD) said on Sunday.
“A low pressure system has developed over west-central and north-east Bay of Bengal. This has changed the wind pattern of Jharkhand to south-easterlies, which is in turn bringing moisture into the state’s atmosphere from the Bay of Bengal,” Satish Chandra Mandal, a
weather
scientist at IMD Ranchi, said. “Due to this, the state will receive scattered rainfall in the next four days,” he added.
The IMD Ranchi said the intensity of rains over Jharkhand is likely to increase from July 16 onwards owing to the shifting of the trough of
monsoon over the state. As on Sunday, the trough ran from west Rajasthan to south Chhattisgarh and onwards to north coastal Andhra Pradesh.
The state had received 344mm rain since June 1. As many as 12 out of 24 districts have received surplus rains. Lohardaga received 91mm excess rain, the highest in the state. As many as four districts — Chatra, Gumla, Seraikela-Kharsawan and West Singhbhum — are rainfall deficient, of which Gumla with 28% negative departure is the poorest in terms of rainfall reception.
Meanwhile, Ranchi remained overcast since Sunday morning. As per the rainfall data of IMD, the state capital received 5.2mm till Sunday evening. Jamshedpur received 52mm rain.
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