Summary:
With Jharkhand geographically sitting in between central and northeast states, it is expected to receive 95% rains this year," a senior weather scientist at Ranchi IMD said. "Isolated parts of Jharkhand experienced heat wave conditions in the past 24 hours. This similar situation is likely to prevail in isolated parts as well, namely northern districts, on Tuesday," IMD Ranchi said in a statement which was issued in the evening. The afternoon temperature in Jamshedpur stood at 42.1° Celsius on Monday, six notches above its normal temperature.Daltonganj recorded 42° Celsius, five notches above normal daytime average. The normal onset of monsoon in Jharkhand was last week - between June 10 and June 12.Monsoon arrived a week behind its schedule in 2017..