Ranchi: Most places across the state are expected to receive light rains as the monsoon trough has shifted towards the north. The weather station said the monsoon trough was passing through Patna.
An alert of light thunder and lightning was also issued for isolated places. However lack of adequate rainfall was still resulting in a 50 percent rain deficit in Jharkhand as against a normal of 489.2 mm, the state so far this monsoon has received 244.7 mm of rain, a deficit of 59 percent.
Met statistics suggest that in absence of adequate rain, the maximum temperature in most districts is recording three to four notches above normal.