Bihar flood: Punpun breaches embankment but situation 'stable'

No fresh flood-related deaths were reported from Bihar today but water entered few villages in the catchment areas of Punpun river due to a breach in its embankment even as the national capital received some rains by the afternoon.
The swollen Punpun river had yesterday breached the ring embankment near Shahbajpur in Patna district and flood waters entered two-three adjoining villages, prompting Chief Minister Nitish Kumar to conduct an aerial survey of the area.
Special Secretary for the state's Disaster Management Department Anuridh Kumar said the flood situation in the river's catchment area is "stable".
He expressed hope that the waters will start receding from tomorrow and the situation will improve.

Meanwhie, due to relatively lesser rainfall in the state, temperatures climbed marginally in Patna and other parts of Bihar. The capital city witnessed traces of while Gaya recorded 3.8 mm rainfall in the past 24 hours.
Light rains were recorded in parts of national capital even as the mercury settled a notch above normal. The maximum and minimum temperatures were recorded at 34.9 and 25.7 degrees Celsius respectively.

Humidity levels oscillated between 88 and 56 per cent.
Heavy rains and thundershowers have been forecast for some parts of Odisha till tomorrow due to a low pressure over west central Bay of Bengal, the IMD said today.

Yesterday's low pressure over west central Bay of Bengal and the adjoining coastal areas of Andhra Pradesh now lies over north coastal Andhra Pradesh and adjoining west central Bay of Bengal, an IMD bulletin said.
The associated upper air cyclonic circulation extends upto 5.8 km above the mean sea level, tilting southwards.
Under its impact, rain or thundershower is likely to occur at a few places over Odisha in the next 24 hours.
In West Bengal, with zero rainfall, weather in the capital city remained hot and sultry. The maximum temperature was 34.4 degrees Celsius while the minimum was 27.

The maximum temperature dropped slightly since yesterday at most places in Punjab and Haryana and hovered close to normal limits.
Chandigarh, the common capital of the two states, recorded a maximum temperature of 33.4 degrees Celsius.
In Haryana, Ambala recorded a high of 33.9 degrees Celsius, up one notch, while Hisar's maximum settled at 37 degrees Celsius, also one notch above normal.
The monsoon remained normal over east Uttar Pradesh resulting in light to moderate rain and thundreshowers at few places in the east and at isolated places over western region.
Chief amount of rainfall was recorded in Gonda, Sardanagar (11 cm each), Rae Bareli (10 cm), Agra (9 CM), Sitapur (8 cm), Banda, Haidergarh and Fursatganj (7 cm each).