A vendor takes shelter under his cart in Patna on a rainy Monday. Met department sources said the eastern part of the state might experience light rainfall on Tuesday under the impact of cyclone Hudhud that made landfall near Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh on Sunday afternoon. “On Monday, Patna received 2.3mm of rainfall till 5.30pm. There is a possibility of light rainfall in the eastern region of the state on Tuesday because Hudhud has turned into a deep depression. At present, the cyclone lies 60km south-east of Visakhapatnam. The wind speed has come down to 40-60kmph now. So even if there is rain, it would not be heavy,” said a Met department source. The source said Bihar would not be much affected by Hudhud and there was nothing to panic about. Rainfall did not affect normal life in the city on Monday but it did affect the electrification work. “We were forced to stop our work because of the incessant rain,” said an electricity board worker near Buddha Marg. Top officials in the disaster management department appeared relaxed after the fresh forecast from the Met office. Andhra Pradesh and Odisha on Monday made massive relief efforts on a war footing to restore communication and power links and clear roads that were battered in Hudhud in which the death toll rose to 24. The Centre, however, put the combined death toll at 17. The cyclone moved from coastal AP to Odisha, where it damaged about 50,000 thatched houses and weakened into a “deep depression”. Text by Shuchismita Chakraborty, picture by Jai Prakash