If Met department predictions are any indication, the weather won’t play spoilsport this Diwali on Wednesday.
Both IMD’s Ranchi and Patna Met centres on Sunday predicted rain-free days in Jharkhand till November 8.
“We are expecting bright weather till Thursday with temperatures hovering between 33 and 18°C,” said R.S. Sharma, a weather scientist at Ranchi Met Centre.
He, however, said some places like Jamshedpur and Ranchi were witnessing formation of clouds in isolated pockets due to the impact of an anti-cyclonic circulation over Gangetic Bengal.
“The circulation was resulting in heavy moisture incursion into the lower levels of the atmosphere leading to rise in minimum temperatures. The impact will wane by Monday pav-ing way for a clear weather,” Sharma said. Both the weather stations did not issue any rain forecast for the next four days.
The maximum temperature in Ranchi and Jamsehdpur was hovering between 31 and 33°C for the last two days, which is around three notches higher during this time of the season. In Daltonganj, Bokaro, Dhanbad and Hazaribagh, the day’s reading was slightly higher than the average normal recorded during this time of the season.
Night temperatures in most parts of the state were several notches above normal in the last couple of days. Ranchi on Sunday recorded a night reading of 18°C, over two degrees above normal. On Saturday, the state capital had recorded 17°C. The local weather office in Jam-shedpur recorded a minimum reading of 20.8°C against Saturday’s 20.7°C. Sunday’s minimum reading was three notches above normal.
Daltonganj, Bokaro, Hazaribagh, Deoghar and several other places across the state witnessed a rise in minimum readings due to adverse wind flow caused by the impact of the anti-cyclonic circulation. The prevailing weather had robbed the nip in the air. “We were not feeling the nip in the morning and night air as it used to be earlier this week,” said Bitthal Kumar, a morning walker at Jubilee Park in Jamshedpur.
Weathermen, however, hinted that the northerly wind flow, which was expected to resume in the next couple of days, would help in bringing down the night readings.