The monsoon is currently active in East India with a number of places, including Kolkata, receiving moderate to heavy overnight rain.
Kolkata, Midnapore and Diamond Harbour reported thunderstorms this morning also.
An update from the India Met Department says that the cyclonic circulation presiding over the weather persists with its presence above Jharkhand and its neighbourhood.
It has the comfort of being embedded in a friendly trough that extends northwest to southeast from Punjab, even while holding the other end of the trough pinned to itself.
The trough covers the plains of Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand and Gangetic West Bengal.
This means that these regions are likely to get monsoon rains depending on the strength of the southeasterly flows that the cyclonic circulation over Jharkhand can whip up from the adjoining Bay of Bengal.
Thunderstorms forecast
The Met has forecast thunderstorms for Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Odisha, Gangetic West Bengal, Bihar, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Assam, Meghalaya, Manipur and Mizoram until this afternoon.
Separately, isolated heavy rainfall has been forecast over East Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Sub-Himalayan West Bengal during the rest of the day.