Winds accompanied with rainfall lashing Dehradun for around an hour in the evening on Friday brought some relief to the people. During the day hours, the mercury shot up close to 38 degree Celsius. The highest maximum temperature 39.9°C was recorded at Pant Nagar while lowest minimum temperature 12.1°C was recorded at Munsiyari, the weathermen informed. With gruelling heat haunting the people, traffic was thin on most of the city roads during the day hours on Friday. “We prayed for the rain as the heat was turning insufferable,” said a resident of Dalanwala.
However, as a storm of a mild intensity lashed the city the power connection snapped in many localities. Power was restored after some time.
The weather forecast for Uttarakhand on Saturday is partly to generally cloudy sky with possibility of light to moderate rain/thunder shower at a few places in Uttarakhand. The weather forecast for Dehradun for the same day is partly cloudy sky and thunder cloud development/light rain in some areas. The maximum and minimum temperatures are likely to be around 37ºC and 20ºC respectively in Dehradun on Saturday.
The Met official said that the maximum temperature settled at 37.8ºC (two degrees above the normal) while the minimum at 22.4ºC (one degree above the normal) in Dehradun. It was 22.0ºC (normal) and 13.7ºC (one degree above the normal) in Mukteshwar and 39.9ºC (three degree above the normal) and 23.6ºC (one degree above the normal) in Pantnagar. In Tehri district, maximum temperature was reported as 25.6 degree Celsius while the minimum was 12.3 degree Celsius on Friday.
Meteorological centre director Bikram Singh said that over the past 24 hours by 8.30 am on Friday, the light to moderate rainfall occurred at many places in Uttarakhand. The figures were 30 mm rainfall each in Gairsain and Chakhutia, 10 mm each in Pithoragarh and Jakholi, 1.6 mm in Pantnagar and 6.6 mm in Tehri,
Heavy rainfall is likely to occur at isolated places especially in Uttarkashi, Chamoli, Rudraprayag, Bageshwar, Nainital and Pithoragarh districts for three days starting from May 28, stated Singh.