PINAKI MAJUMDAR
Jamshedpur, Jan 16: Daltonganj, the Palamau headquarters today recorded new low of the season with the local IMD weather station showing 4.7 degrees minimum temperature.
Today’s minimum temperature in Daltonganj was around five notches below normal.
This means, weathermen said cold wave conditions were prevailing in Daltonganj and its adjoining areas.
Cold wave conditions were also prevailing in several parts of central Jharkhand including Bokaro which today notched a minimum temperature of 7.1 degrees Celsius.
Today’s minimum temperature in Bokaro was 4.8 notches below normal.
In Met parlance, a cold wave situation is declared when the minimum temperature remains below 10 degrees Celsius and at a particular place it is around less than the average normal.
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Jharkhand is in the grip of Sub-10 chill for the last couple of days due to the dominating north-westerly winds.
The snowfalls in the Himalayan region and in Jammu Kashmir have intensified the chill in Jharkhand and its neighbouring states for the last few days.
Westerly to North-Westerly winds prevailed over the state during the past 24 hours.
The cyclonic circulation over southern Bangladesh and the neighbourhood was extending up to 1.5 km above mean sea level.
Dry weather prevailed over the state while a cold wave with moderate fog was witnessed at isolated places over the western parts of the state.
IMD’s Ranchi Met Centre this morning issued an alert of moderate to dense fog in isolated parts of the state during the next two days.
The Met centre also predicted light rain in isolated areas tomorrow, January 17.
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