Patnaites woke up to a sunny morning on Tuesday, but the sky soon turned partly cloudy. The maximum temperature in the city increased to settle at 26 degree Celsius while the minimum temperature hovered around 13 degree Celsius.

Indian Meteorological Department (IMD)-Patna director AK Sen said Wednesday would also be a partly cloudy day. But on Thursday and Friday, most of the areas of south Bihar will receive light to moderate rainfall.

Western disturbances have been hitting the state quite frequently this year, resulting in light to moderate rainfall almost every week. This rainfall in turn creates cold conditions and the mercury plummets below normal. The four cyclones which hit coastal areas in the month of September-October are causing huge moisture incursion, which leads to frequent upper air cyclonic circulations forming over Central India, the weatherman explained.

An IMD-Delhi report also says wind confluence and moisture incursion will take place over Central India from Wednesday onwards which will again combine with fresh western disturbance and draw a lot of moisture from the Bay of Bengal, causing rain in Bihar and eastern UP. This western disturbance is passing through lower latitude, which will bring in rain and even thunder showers in south Bihar areas, said Sen.

Bright sunshine is forecast only from Saturday. There are several more western disturbances in queue which are ready to hit the state. However, their impact will depend on the height of latitude they pass. "Unless there is a break from wet spell for at least 10 days, we can't say the winter is over," said the Met official.

According to Bihar's deputy director (horticulture) Nitesh Kumar Rai, frequent showers have damaged not only potato but most of the flower cultivation. In a way, this weekly rain is bad for floriculture. Mango flowers too have been damaged. To some extent it has also damaged the lentils, especially 'masoor' crop.

Source - http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/