As the cloudy sky and rain spells at isolated places brought some relieve to the denizens residing in the State capital from blistering heat, weathermen called this just a temporary relief and that the temperature may rise again in the coming days.
There is a feeble chance of heavy rainfall with thunderstorms in the city, including isolated pockets of Jharkhand. The dry weather will continue in the coming days, hardly providing any relief to the people from the scorching heat, they said.
The weather bulletin released by Ranchi observatory centre of the IMD on Saturday predicted an average fall of five degrees Celsius in temperature across the State. The MET department has ruled out possibility of rainfall at Ranchi and its adjoining areas. Rainfall and thunderstorm may hit few isolated places at southern and eastern parts of the state in next three to four days.
In the coming days, most parts of the State will again witness heat wave like condition as temperature will rise. However, for the time being, effect of cloudy sky will be maintained for another two days and endure will remain pleasant.
“There is an upper air cyclonic circulation covering north eastern parts especially Assam and Meghalaya. However, the system seems to be feeble and is providing light moisture in the atmosphere. In coming days too, there is no strong chances of any strong system formulation. Moreover, chances of rainfall is very weak according to the current predictions or will hit only the isolated places, though there is a cloud cover in eastern districts of the state but it will not bring rainfall, ” informed, Forecast officer of Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) Ranchi observatory, Upendra Srivastava.
Notably, looking at the ill-effects of summer which gripped the denizens in the state capital in April, the district administration too has changed the school timing of both government and private schools. According to the circular released by the School Education and literacy Department, classes from 1 to 8 will remain suspended from May 8 till June 5. Similarly, for secondary class students studying in government school, classes will initiate from May 30. Maximum private schools operating in state capital will also reopen in June first week.