Bihar: ‘Rain likely to continue till June 19’

PATNA: Two days after its onset in Bihar, the southwest monsoon covered the entire state on Monday.
Heavy rainfall occurred at several places in the last 24 hours. India Meteorological Department (IMD) has predicted fairly widespread to widespread rainfall over Bihar during the next two to three days.
A Patna Meteorological Centre bulletin stated that rainfall with thunderstorm is likely in all the 38 districts in Bihar till June 19 with slight reduction in intensity from Thursday.
South-central Bihar, including Patna and Gaya, are most likely to receive rainfall with thunderstorm at many places till Friday. However, no weather warning has been issued for the next five days.
The Patna centre stated that heavy rainfall occurred at one or two places in southeastern parts and light to moderate rainfall in many parts of south-central and northeastern Bihar.
Some of the places which received significant rainfall included 40mm at Bahadurganj in Kishanganj district and 30mm each at Dhengraghat in Purnia, Madhepura, Deo in Aurangabad and Garhi in Madhubani. Bihpur, Bhagalpur, Sherghati, Murliganj, Forbesganj and Dehri recorded 20mm rainfall.
Southwest monsoon made its foray into Bihar through Bhagalpur and Purnea last Saturday.
IMD stated that southwest monsoon has further advanced into some more parts of north Arabian Sea, Gujarat, entire Diu, some more parts of Madhya Pradesh, remaining parts of Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand and Bihar and some parts of east Uttar Pradesh.
It attributed the showers expected over the next few days in Bihar to the monsoon trough running from northwest Rajasthan to Gangetic West Bengal across east Rajasthan, north Madhya Pradesh and Jharkhand.
The Northern Limit of Monsoon (NLM) was passing through Kandla, Ahmedabad, Indore, Narsinghpur, Umaria and Balia (east UP). Besides, a cyclonic circulation was also situated over southeast UP on Monday.
The IMD bulletin stated that fairly widespread to widespread rainfall was very likely to continue over Bihar during the next two to three days under the influence of such weather systems.