High temperature, humidity make life difficult in Bihar

Patna, June 14: People in Bihar had no respite from high temperature and humidity even as weather office forecast chance of light to moderate rainfall in Patna and other parts of the state in the next 24 hours.

The MeT department has forecast generally cloudy sky in Patna and Gaya with light rain or drizzle while Bhagalpur and Purnea will have generally cloudy sky with moderate rain tomorrow.

Gaya continued to be hottest place in Bihar recording 43 degrees Celsius, while Patna recorded a maximum temperature of 36.6 degrees Celsius during the day.

Bhagalpur registered maximum temperature of 34.8 degrees Celsius and Purnea 33.3 degrees Celsius. Patna and Bhagalpur did not have any rains in the past 24 hours while Purnea witnessed rainfall of 1.8 mm. Gaya experienced only .4 mm rain, a MeT official said.

PTI