Dehradun residents continued to experience warm weather on the weekend with youths being seen resorting to dips in stretch of open canal in the town to beat the heat on Sunday. However there was some relief from the soaring mercury level with light rain/snowfall being reported at some places in higher reaches which brought temperatures down by a few degrees. The mercury hovered in the neighbourhood of over 35 degree Celsius in Dehradun on Sunday.
Meteorological centre director Bikram Singh said that the climate remained dry in Dehradun on Sunday. The weather forecast for Uttarakhand on Monday is mainly clear to partly cloudy sky and very light to light rain/thunder shower at isolated places especially in Uttarkashi, Chamoli and Pithoragarh districts of Uttarakhand. However, light to moderate rain/thunder shower has been forecast at a few places in Uttarakhand from April 4 to April 6.
Meanwhile, many, especially the women, were seen using umbrellas and scarves to shield themselves from the scorching sun on Sunday. Vani Vihar resident Rakesh who was seen taking a dip around noon in a canal at Maldevta said that he along with his friends had come to dip in the canal, the day being Sunday.
Cart vendors selling cold water, ice cream, cucumbers and other items made brisk earnings as people purchased the various consumables to get relief from the searing heat. Rohan, a cart vendor found at Gandhi Park, said that with the rise up in temperature, people were coming to purchase ice creams the prices varying from Rs 10 to Rs 50.
The meteorological centre director further said that across the state on Sunday, the highest maximum temperature of 37.4 °C was recorded in the Jolly Grant area . The lowest minimum temperature of 8.8°C was recorded at Munsiyari on the same day.
The weather forecast for Dehradun on Monday is cloudy sky and thunder cloud development in some areas. The maximum and minimum temperatures are likely to be around 35ºC and 17ºC respectively in Dehradun on Monday.
While the maximum settled at 35.6°C (six degree above the normal) and the minimum at 17.4°C (three degree above the normal) in Dehradun it was 26.0°C (five degree above the normal) and 11.7°C (four degree above the normal) in Mukteshwar.