The minimum temperature, which had decreased significantly across Jharkhand over the past weekend, is set to rise again from Thursday onwards.

Abhishek Anand, deputy director of Ranchi Meteorological Centre, said the state would experience a rise in minimum temperature by 2 to 4 degrees Celsius on Thursday and Friday.

Both the maximum and minimum temperature came down during the last weekend, marking a noticeable departure from the normal.

Bokaro was the coldest place in the state on Sunday where the minimum temperature recorded was 9.1 degrees Celsius, 6.5 degrees below the normal, followed by Ranchi which recorded 10.1 degrees Celsius, which was 2.1 degrees below the normal.

Even places like Jamshedpur, Daltonganj and Chaibasa recorded minimum temperatures that were below the normal.

Barring Chaibasa, that recorded the highest maximum temperature of 29 degrees Celsius on Sunday, the day temperature in most of the other towns of the state were below the normal that day.

“The weather is expected to remain dry and there will be no major change in temperature till November 25,” Anand said.

He said the minimum temperature across the state was then likely to go up by 2 to 4 degrees Celsius on November 26 and 27.

“There is also a possibility of the state experiencing light to moderate rainfall in isolated places during those two days,” he said.

A depression in the southwest Bay of Bengal is expected to form into a cyclone within the next 24 hours and hit the Tamil Nadu coast as a severe cyclonic storm on Wednesday afternoon, he further said.

The cyclonic system would have an interaction with a western disturbance originating in the upper ridges of Kashmir and Himachal Pradesh, he added.

“As a result of this interaction, Jharkhand was likely to receive isolated light to moderate rains on November 26 and 27,” Anand said.

While the northwest and southwest parts of Jharkhand would receive light to moderate isolated rainfall on November 26, the northeast and northwest parts of the state would do so on November 27, he said.

The minimum temperature would also then go up by 2 to 4 degrees for the next few days, he said, indicating the next weekend would not be as cold as it was the last weekend.