light rain/thundershower is likely to occur at a few places with moderate rainfall at isolated places in Uttarakhand on Friday. In Dehradun district, around 30 roads have remained blocked for traffic by the time of filing this report despite the intensity of the rainfall activity having come down as predicted by the weathermen on Thursday.
Monsoon having bared its fury for the past two days, the climate was dry in Dehradun on Thursday. With the sun on its scorching spree, the mercury shot up by eight notches on the day as compared to that of Wednesday.
Meanwhile, works are going on in full swing now to clear the roads of the accumulated debris brought about by the rain-triggered landslides. The government officials in charge of clearing the blocked roads claimed that works were being done on a war footing to clear roads in several places like Mussoorie, Rishikesh, Kalsi, and Chakrata.
The humidity continues to stay high with Dehradun with 86 per cent humidity recorded on Thursday while it was 96 per cent in New Tehri, 94 mm in Mukteshwar and 81 mm in Pantnagar.
Uttarakhand Meteorological centre director Bikram Singh said that 110 mm rainfall was reported in Dehradun while it was 50 mm each in Ranikhet, Jolly Grant and lansdowne, 30 mm each in Mussoorie, Srinagar, Pithoragarh, Devprayag, Kapkot, Kotdwar, Uttarkashi, Tehri, Dwarahat, Chaukhutia and Uttarkashi.
A Dehradun district disaster control room official said that around 30 roads blocked due to landslides triggered by heavy rainfall over the past two days have remained closed for traffic on Thursday. Four roads are blocked for traffic in Saiya, six in Kalsi, four in Rishikesh and one each in Mussooire and Chakrata. Above 60 distress calls were received at control room from the people living in various parts of the district on Thursday. Most of complainants were related to collapse of safety walls and payjal lines, erosion of agriculture lands and water logging among others.