As predicted Southwest Monsoon has covered east Uttar Pradesh and is likely to cover central parts of the state in next 24 hours. Though very light, Allahabad received the first Monsoon rain of the season on Friday.
The Southwest Monsoon had brought good showers over East India in the last few days but the intensity has reduced over the southern parts of East India and the rain belt seems to have shifted upwards. Consequently, rain will reduce over Odisha and Jharkhand in next 24 hours but increase over north eastern parts of Chhattisgarh, Bihar, Sub Himalayan West Bengal and Sikkim.
The rainfall figures below clearly suffice the above statement-
In a span of 24 hours since 8 am on Friday Burdwan received 59 mm of rain, Coochbehar 51 mm, Darjeelinh 84.1 mm, Digha 50, Sriniketan 53.4, Jalpaiguri 36 mm, Baharampur 18 mm, Midnapore 11 mm and Kolkata received 8.2 mm of rain. Gangtok in Sikkim received 28 mm of rain.
In Jharkhand Bokaro received 67 mm and Jamshedpur received 22 mm of rain while Ranchi recorded 30 mm. In east Uttar Pradesh Gorakhpur observed 84.4 mm of rain, while Jharsuguda and Cuttack in Odisha received 9.2 mm and 25.3 mm of rain, respectively.
In Chhattisgarh, Bilaspur received 36 mm, Pendra 48 mm, Durg 10.2 mm and Raipur 5 mm of rain.
According to Skymet Meteorology Division in India, rain will continue in East India for next 24 to 48 hours. Good to heavy showers are likely over Gangetic plains, Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha, east Uttar Pradesh and Chhattisgarh with few very heavy spells over Sub Himalayan West Bengal.
Temperatures in entire East India have come down to comfortable levels due to widespread rain. They are now just about normal around 33⁰C. Jamshedpur recorded maximum of 28⁰C on Friday. Maximum at Bokaro was also 6⁰C below normal while, Jharsuguda was 7⁰C below normal at 27.6⁰C.
