Bihar may get rains from Friday evening

Patna, Jul 18 (PTI) The south west monsoon hasweakened in Bihar in the past few days, but the state maywitness a good rainfall from Friday."A system is developing and people of Bihar may expecta good

Patna, Jul 18 (PTI) The south west monsoon has

weakened in Bihar in the past few days, but the state may

witness a good rainfall from Friday.

“A system is developing and people of Bihar may expect

a good rainfall from coming Friday evening or from Saturday.

It will rain for 3-4 days,” Patna Meteorological Centre senior

scientist Anand Shankar told PTI.

The absence of rains has increased the maximum

temperature to around 37 degree Celsius in major cities of the

state.

State capital Patna, which had witnessed rainfall on

July 14, recorded the highest maximum temperature at 37.4

degree C against yesterday’s 37 degree C.

Patna was followed by Bhagalpur (37.2 degree C),

Purnea (37.1 degree C) and Gaya (36.7 degree C), the Met

bulletin said.

Patna registered 4.4 degrees above its normal maximum

temperature while Purnea recorded 4 degrees above, Bhagalpur

and Gaya recorded 3.7 and 3.4 degrees above normal.

The bulletin said light to moderate rainfall occurred

at one or two places in the state, with Bhagalpur and Purnea

recording 11.4 mm and 6 mm rainfall respectively today.

Weather remained mainly dry across rest of Bihar. PTI

This is published unedited from the PTI feed.