IMD's Ranchi Meteorological Centre on Wednesday issued a rain and thunderstorm alert in various pockets of Jharkhand for the next three days.

Dry weather prevailed in the state during the last 24 hours.

Statistics revealed that the automatic weather station at Pakur recorded the highest maximum temperature of 41.2°C in the past 24 hours.

Jamshedpur, Daltonganj, Bokaro, Dhanbad, Deoghar and several other places recorded around 41°C for the last two days while the day's reading at Ranchi was hovering around 38°C for the last two days.

Wednesday's satellite pictures revealed formation of a low pressure trough in mid and upper tropospheric level which will help thunderstorm and rainfall activity over Jharkhand.

The Patna Meteorological Centre also issued a forecast of partly cloudy sky with possibility of light rain or thunderstorm at isolated places over north, south-east and central Jharkhand between April15 and 17.

Jharkhand has so far experienced three Nor'westers, two of them took place earlier in April.