The weather condition will improve in most parts of Jharkhand from Thursday, said weathermen on Wednesday.
According to weathermen, the depression which originated from the Bay of Bengal and resulted in widespread and heavy rain in Jharkhand, Odisha and West Bengal in the last two days, moved towards Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh.
"The impact of the depression would wane from tomorrow as the system is gradually weakening as it is moving towards Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh. The intensity of rain over Jharkhand decreased today," said Abhishek Anand, head of Ranchi Meteorological Centre.
Anand said that some parts of Jharkhand were expected to witness light showers accompanied by lightning and thunder in the next 48 hours due to formation of convective clouds.
"The depression has left behind a lot of moisture in the atmosphere due to bearing of land during day time; it will facilitate formation of convective clouds, "explained Anand.
Rain data revealed that Kuru in Lohardaga district recorded the highest heavy rain of 128.4 mm in the past 24 hours (8.30am of Tuesday to 8.30am of Wednesday).
The other places which recorded significant rain included Mandar in Ranchi district ( 126 mm), Arki in Khunti ( 115 mm ), Lohardaga ( 106 mm ) Latehar ( 105 mm ), Ramgarh ( 104 mm), Hazaribagh ( 80 mm ), Chaibasa ( 70 mm) and Ranchi ( 58 mm).
Koderma, Jamtara, Dhanbad, Bokaro, Daltonganj, Giridih and Dumka experienced moderate rain during the last 24 hours.
Several places in central and northern Jharkhand including Ranchi and Hazaribagh witnessed intermittent rains on Wednesday.
Most parts of Jharkhand woke up to gloomy weather on Thursday.
The sun was mostly cloaked behind cloud cover. But, weathermen said the Sun will come out tomorrow as the weather condition improves.
IMD's Ranchi Met Centre in its sector-wise forecast issued an alert of moderate thunder and lightning in the next two days.
According to the Met office data, Jharkhand has so far received 909 mm rainfall, against a normal of 952 mm, a deficit of four percent.
The deficit figure dipped to four percent from yesterday's eight per cent due to a good shower show.
The water level in river Subernarekha and Kharkai which had witnessed a rise was gradually receding.
