Widespread rainfall has been reported from across the State over the past 24 hours. Moreover, heavy to very heavy rainfall has been forecast for several places across Almora, Champawat, Nainital, Udham Singh Nagar, Pauri, Haridwar and Dehradun districts during the next 24 hours from Wednesday evening.
Normal life in Kumaon region has been thrown out of gear following heavy rainfall on Wednesday. Over the past 24 hours, maximum rainfall measuring 140 mm was reported from Haldwani in Nainital district.
Heavy rain has been reported from the mountainous parts of the State too over the past 24 hours. Many roads are reported to be blocked for traffic, especially in the hills. Nine roads are blocked in mountainous parts of the Dehradun district too. As many as 30 complaints related to problems caused due to excessive rainfall were reported at district disaster control room from various mountainous parts in Dehradun on Wednesday.
Over the past 24 hours, rainfall of varying degrees was reported from some places in the State. While 33.5 mm rainfall was reported in Dehradun, it was 44.2 mm in Tehri, 48.4 mm in Mukteshwar and 11.6 in Pantnagar. 80 mm rainfall was reported in Banbasa; 60 mm in Chamoli and Gairsain; 50 mm in Almora, Ranikhet, Karanprayag, Tehri, Mukteshwar, Gangolihat, Jakholi, Garud and Dhari and 40 mm in Bageshwar, Dharchula and Capcot.
The weather forecast for Dehradun on Thursday 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 Thursday.