The Uttarakhand Meteorological Centre has forecast very light to light rain/thunderstorm at a few places with isolated moderate rain in Uttarakhand on May 9 and 10. The weather forecast for Dehradun on Monday is partly to generally cloudy sky and light rain/thunderstorm at many places in the district. The maximum and minimum temperatures are likely to be around 34ºC and 21ºC respectively in Dehradun on Monday.
The Meteorological centre has forecast light to moderate rain/thunderstorm at many places in Uttarakhand on May 11 and May 12. Rainfall at isolated places in the State brought the mercury level down on Sunday with the Met office forecasting continuing rains in the State till May 13.
The Centre’s director Bikram Singh said that the east-west trough from Punjab to Northwest Bay of Bengal with embedded cyclonic circulations and another over east Uttar Pradesh and neighbourhood is likely to prevail till May 13 as a result of which wide-spread rains would continue for few more days. The possibility of rain is strengthened with western disturbance moving across Afghanistan, North Pakistan and northern parts of Jammu and Kashmir from May 11 to May 13, the official said.
The max temperatures are likely to remain near normal or below normal across the State for most part of the week, he added. Singh further informed that the max and min temp were recorded at 34.9ºC (one degree above the normal) and 21.4ºC (one degree below the normal) in Dehradun on Sunday.