Bihar receives moderate to heavy rain, Met predicts more rains

Moderate to heavy rainfall occurred at many places in southern parts of Bihar with Met department forecasting moderate rainfall for Patna and some other places of the state.
Light to moderate rainfall occurred at a few places in the other parts of the state.
Gaya registered 23.0 mm rainfall, followed by Patna with 7.2 mm, Bhagalpur with 3.5 mm and Purnea with 2.5 mm rainfall recorded between 8:30 am to 5:30 pm, Met bulletin said.
Gaya received 29.8 mm rainfall between 8:30 am on Sunday to 8:30 am on Monday, it said. Bhagalpur and Purnea recorded 13.8 mm and 5.4 mm rainfall respectively.

With South West Monsoon normal in Bihar in the past 24 hours, places like Dehri received 8 cm of rainfall, Sheikhpura and Indrapuri received 7 cm each, Sherghati recorded 6 cm while Ramnagar and Aurangabad registered 5 cm each, the Met office said.
Patna recorded the highest maximum temperature of 32.4 degrees Celsius, followed by Purnea - 32.0 degrees Celsius, Bhagalpur 31.7 degrees Celsius and Gaya 30.5 degrees Celsius, the bulletin said.
In its forecast, the Met office said Patna, Gaya, Bhagalpur and Purnea may witness generally cloudy sky with possibility of moderate to heavy rain, thunder shower or thunder storm at some places tomorrow.