Heavy rainfall has been forecast at isolated places, especially in districts of Kumaon region of the state, during the next 48 hours starting from the September 21 morning. Sky was mostly cloudy in Dehradun on Tuesday and it drizzled in the evening. Over the past 24 hours by 8.30 am on Tuesday, Dehradun received 13.8 mm rainfall. Many roads in the state capital have remained damaged following the monsoon rain.
Bikram Singh, director of Met department, Uttarakhand said that monsoon had remained weak during the past 24 hours in Uttarakhand. Very light to light rainfall had occurred at isolated places across Uttarakhand over the past 24 hours, he added. Singh further said that the monsoon would remain active in the next two days. He added that they have been monitoring the situation. “It seems, given the present trend, that the monsoon would remain active at least till September 30. Possibly, the withdrawal of monsoon would be delayed by a few days. It is likely to persist till the first week of October,” he said.
Notably, the withdrawal of monsoon in Rajasthan has been delayed by 15 days with the normal date being September 1. The same trend is likely to be discernible in Uttarakhand too.
The Met office has forecast heavy rainfall in Kumaon region while predicting light to moderate rainfall/thundershowers at a few places in the rest of the state on September 21 and September 22. The same trend would continue for the following two days-September 23 and September 24. The weather forecast for Dehradun on Wednesday is partly to generally cloudy sky and rain/thunderstorm at many places. The maximum and minimum temperatures are likely to be around 31ºC and 23ºC respectively in Dehradun on Wednesday.
The maximum and minimum temperatures were recorded at 32.4ºC Celsius and 23.0ºC Celsius in Dehradun respectively while it was 22.3ºC and 13.6ºC in Mukteshwar, 24.9ºC and 16.6ºC in Tehri and 34.2ºC and 25.1ºC in Pantnagar on Tuesday.