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Jharkhand Weather: Rain deficit drops to 38%, light to moderate rain forecast at most places today

PINAKI MAJUMDAR   Jamshedpur, Aug 2:  An active monsoon resulted in widespread and heavy rain in some places during the past 48 hours…

Jharkhand Weather: Rain deficit drops to 38%, light to moderate rain forecast at most places today

PINAKI MAJUMDAR

 

Jamshedpur, Aug 2:  An active monsoon resulted in widespread and heavy rain in some places during the past 48 hours and this has brought down the state’s deficit rain figure to 38 per cent.

Two days back, July, the second monsoon month had ended with a 43 per cent rain deficit.

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Rain statistics still show that none of the 24 districts could overcome the deficit figure.

Last year during this time of the season as many as 10 districts had recorded surplus rain, revealed Met office statistics.

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Yesterday, the monsoon trough at mean sea level was passing through Sri Ganganagar, Rohtak, Hardoi, Varanasi, Dehri, Bankura, Canning and thence southeastwards to northeast Bay of Bengal.

The cyclonic circulation over Gangetic West Bengal and its neighbourhood was lying over adjoining south Bangladesh extending up to 7.6 km above mean sea level tilting southwards with height.

A trough was stretched from the cyclonic circulation over Gangetic West Bengal and adjoining south Bangladesh to northeast Bihar at 0.9 km above mean sea level.

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Another trough was stretched from western Uttar Pradesh to cyclonic circulation over Gangetic West Bengal between 1.5 and 3.1 km above the mean sea level.

Against a normal of 517 mm, the state has so far received 321 mm of rain resulting in a 38 per cent deficit.

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