The Met office has issued heavy to very heavy rainfall warning for isolated places in Almora, Champawat, Nainital, Udham Singh Nagar, Pauri, Haridwar and Dehradun districts during the next 48 hours. The weather forecast for Dehradun on Tuesday is one or two spell of rain/thundershower. The showers might be heavy in some areas. The maximum and minimum temperatures are likely to be around 31ºC and 23ºC respectively in Dehradun on Tuesday.
The maximum temperature was reported to have gone two notches above the normal in Dehradun, the same in Pantnagar and three notches in Mukteshwar. The minimum also remained one degree above the normal in Dehradun district, three degree above the normal in Pantnagar and two degree above the normal in Mukteshwar on Monday.
The Met centre director Bikram Singh informed that the maximum and minimum temperatures were recorded at 32.2ºC Celsius and 23.6ºC Celsius in Dehradun respectively while it was 24.2ºC and 15.7ºC in Mukteshwar, 24.5ºC and 17.4ºC in Tehri and 35.0ºC and 27.7ºC in Pantnagar respectively on Monday.
The Met office further said that moderate rain/thundershowers might occur at many places across Uttarakhand till August 12, starting from Monday.
Over the past 24 hours by 8.30 am on Monday, rainfall of varying degrees was reported from some places in the State. While 20mm rainfall was reported in Chukhutia, it was 30mm in Someshwar, 40mm in Gairsain, 30mm in Champawat, 90mm in Dehradun, 30mm in Pauri, 20mm in Srinagar, 40mm in Gairsain, 30mm in laksar, 40mm in Nainital, 20mm each in Pithoragarh, Didihat, Dharchula, Bhatwari, Dunda and Uttarkashi, 0.6mm in Tehri and 6.8mm in Mukteshwar.
Roads in mountainous parts of the State are reported to be still blocked due to landsides. The normal life in Kumaon and Garhwal divisions has been adversely affected following rainfall being reported for the past two days.
In Dehradun too, it rained sporadically throughout the day. The climate, however, remained hot and humid.