light to moderate rainfall brought relief the residents in the state capital from hot and humid conditions. However, those living in low lying areas of the city were inconvenienced due to water logging. Students coming out from their school in the city were inconvenienced too. Gautam, a DBS (PG) College student, said, “When I came out of my class at noonrain started. I waited for around an hour at college for the rain to stop. I feared that getting drenched would bring fever.”
Traffic jam was witnessed at low lying area in the aftermath of the rainfall. Urmila, resident of Raipur, said the roads remaining water-logged had exposed the lack of preparations taken by the district administration to deal with the monsoon. “We have been facing the same trouble throughout the monsoon,” he said.
The weather forecast for Dehradun on Friday is partly to generally cloudy sky with possibility of light rain/thundershowers in some areas. The maximum and minimum temperatures are likely to be around 33 ºC and 23 ºC respectively in Dehradun on Friday, said the Met officials.
The maximum and minimum temperatures were recorded at 32.8ºC Celsius and 23.4ºC Celsius in Dehradun while it was 22.4ºC and 15.2ºC in Mukteshwar, 25.0ºC and 16.6ºC in Tehri and 33.8ºC and 25.4ºC in Pantnagar on Thursday.