The Met Department on Friday forecasted rain and thunderstorms in several states of eastern India for the next three days, bringing joy for people across the region reeling under severe heatwave conditions.
The weather office predicted widespread rain in the northeastern states during the period and isolated rainfall in West Bengal, Bihar, Jharkhand and Odisha.
“Due to the formation of a cyclonic circulation over central Uttar Pradesh and moisture incursion from the Bay of Bengal, the maximum temperature is likely to fall by three to five degrees Celsius during the next five days,” it said in a special bulletin.
Heatwave conditions have been prevailing in Gangetic West Bengal for the last 10 days, with Bankura recording a maximum temperature of 44.3 degrees Celsius on Thursday, followed by Panagarh air force station at 43.9 degrees C, the department said.
A partly cloudy sky, however, lowered temperatures on Friday. In Kolkata, the mercury settled at 38 degrees C, and 39.7 degrees C in neighbouring Salt Lake.
Thunderstorms with lightning and gusty winds are likely at one or two places over the districts of West Bengal between April 22 and April 25, the bulletin said.
