Rain lashed Dehradun, Haridwar and some other district of the State on Saturday, throwing life out of gear. The wet spell is likely to continue for one more day, the weathermen warned. By 5.30 pm on Saturday, 35 mm rainfall was reported in Dehradun, 102 mm in Mukteshwar and 46.5 mm in Tehri.
Dehradun residents were inconvenienced as rain battered the city throughout the day since the morning. Traffic was thin on the day as compared to the normal days. Though the district magistrate ordered all the schools to be closed on Saturday some of the schools were open in violation of the order. The students were found coming to the schools drenched. They had the same plight when they left the schools on way back home. Some roads in the low- lying areas of the city were waterlogged as the nallahs were chocked.
Meteorological centre director Bikram Singh said that monsoon remaining vigorous in Uttarakhand, 150 mm rainfall was reported in Nainital, 110 mm each in Haldwani, Mukteshwar and Jaspur, 90 mm in Pantnagar, 80 mm in Gairsain, 60 mm each in Ukhimath, Hardwar and Jakholi, 50 mm each in laksar, Karnaprayag, Roorkee, Dwarhat, Almora, Tehri, Ramnagar and Deoprayag, 40 mm each in Chamoli, Chaukhutia, Ukhimath, Bageshwar, Banbasa, Ranikhet, Pauri, Tehri, Jollygrant and Champawat, 30 mm each in Kotdwar, Garud, Dehradun, Ghansali, Munsiyari, Srinagar, Rudraprayag, Kashipur and Kapkot over the past 24 hours. He further said that the rainy spell would continue on Sunday too, though the intensity might come down in some of the districts.
Meanwhile, the incessant rain resulted in a mercury dip across the state. In Dehradun, the maximum temperature dipped by six degree Celsius. The maximum temperature was 23.7 degree Celsius- six notches below the normal –in Dehradun while the minimum was 22.0 degree Celsius- two notches above the normal- in the city on Saturday.
Weather forecast for Dehradun on Sunday is partly to generally cloudy sky with the likelihood of one or two spells of rain/thunder showers at some places.
The maximum and minimum temperatures are likely to be around 28 degree Celsius and 19 degree Celsius respectively in the city on Sunday, Singh added.