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Cooling with ice cream at Purulia Road in Ranchi on Thursday. (Hardeep Singh)
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singeing feeling
If you had heaved a sigh of relief when a Nor’wester took Jharkhand by storm last Sunday, you were only hoping against hope. Weathermen say the worst of the Celsius onslaught is yet to come. The Patna Met office on Thursday extended heat wave condition for 24 hours with day readings sprinting four to five degrees above normal. “Jharkhand is in the grip of westerly winds. We don’t see any sign of rainfall in 72 hours. Temperatures will continue to rise,” said A.K. Sen, joint director
Celsius swagger
Bokaro was a sweat bucket on Thursday as the mercury soared to 46.1°C, five degrees above average normal. Coal capital Dhanbad saw its hottest day of the season, with the Celsius crossing the 45-degree mark and staying four degrees above normal. In Jamshedpur, the maximum leaped to 44.7°C, four notches above normal. Heat chamber Daltonganj recorded 44.5°C, three degrees above normal. Ranchi was the coolest one despite staying above 40°C. On Wednesday, it had broken its season’s record with 41.7°C
June of joy?
Weather analysts at the Regional Meteorological Centre in Alipore, Calcutta, said a change in wind pattern (to easterly) is expected only when the monsoon currents hit the Bay of Bengal in the first week of June. “Owing to lack of moisture, solar radiation is intense and temperatures are rapidly rising across Jharkhand. Our observations suggest that moisture incursion into the atmosphere will be revived once monsoon currents hit the Bay of Bengal next month,” said the duty officer
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