Ranchi: Rain tends to play spoilsport during the last days of the Puja Durga celebration next week, the weather office here hinted on Thursday.
Even though the southwest monsun trough has begun to withdraw from Jharkhand, the southern and northeastern part of the state can witness the rain during next week.
“A well-marked pressure area that has been well-marked has formed above the North Andaman region in Bengal Bay.
The possibility of collecting more steam and converted into cyclone circulation in around 10 October and heading towards South Odisha and North Andhra Pradesh to make landing,” Abhishek Anand, scientists and IMD Ranchi, told TII.
“Under the influence of cyclical circulation, some parts of the Jharkhand, namely Southeast and Northeast districts, tend to receive rain between 14 and 15 October,” he added.
The Estimated IMD implies that cities such as Ranchi, Jamshedpur, Chaibasa, Dhanbad, Bokaro, Dumka and Deoghar can receive rain during the Puja, which is scheduled between October 11 and October 15.
However, an extended two-week weather forecast, released on Thursday.
Afternoon, claiming that there would be no significant rainfall this week.
“The southwestern monsun trough tends to attract fully from the country between October 13 and October 15.
So the monsoon-induced rainfall in Jharkhand is not possible during this period,” Anand said.
The four-month monsoon season, which lasted from June 1 to September 30, brought normal rainfall to the state of this year, which has an active monsun trough and some cyclone circulation.
The state received 1043.4 rain, which was slightly below the normal average of Jharkhand 1054.7 mm.
Cyclone Gulab also brought the remaining rain in a few days since this month.
According to IMD statistics, the state receives 58mm rain between October 1 and October 7, which is 80% of the excess than the normal average of this year.
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