Cloudburst and subsequent landslips damaged several roads and houses in the villages of Tehri district on Saturday. Budhakedar-Ghansali motor road was blocked. local policemen along with SDRF personnel were pressed into relief operation in the affected areas.
The worst affected villages of Tehri district included Kauthiyara and Khursiya of Ghansali, Sendul, Kemra and Suliyara. Gushing waters and debris entered the houses following the sudden rain that started at 5 pm. It rained heavily in Dehradun also in the evening. Efforts were on to clear the stretches of the debris.
As a cyclonic storm has been advancing across Uttarakhand, heavy rainfall has been occurring in various parts of the State since Saturday evening. Heavy rain in various parts of the State is forecast to continue for two more days.
Dehradun too was lashed by torrential rain accompanied by storm.
Gangotri highway was blocked for some time, and later opened after deployment of police forces and the SDRF. The Char Dham Yatra routes also saw landslides. Roads were blocked at Chimyala and Bheswada.
Tehri Superintendent of Police Barinderjit Singh said no human casualty was reported in the cloudburst so far, adding, that some cattle perished.
Heavy rainfall lashed large areas of Pithoragarh and Chamoli districts too on Saturday. In Chamoli district, among the most affected areas is Kunda under Karnprayag block.
In Dehradun, the sky was overcast since the morning on Saturday. It drizzled too in the afternoon, bringing down the mercury by a few notches. However, it rained heavily in Dehradun in the evening. The rain was accompanied by storm with a fairly high velocity. Subsequently, power went off, plunging most of the areas of the Capital city in darkness.
The Meteorological centre has issued a warning of heavy rain at some places in Uttarakhand for the next two days starting from Sunday evening. Thunder squall/hail is likely to lash some places during the period.
Another cyclonic storm advancing towards north India, the Met office warned of hail/thunder squall (speed reaching 60-70 kmph) lashing some places in Uttarakhand on May 29 and 30.
The Met department head, Bikram Singh said aside from the trough formed over Punjab with embedded cyclonic circulation, a western disturbance is also likely to move across North Pakistan and Jammu and Kashmir from May 29 to May 30, resulting in rain and thunderstorms.
Singh said that the weather forecast for Dehradun on Sunday is partly cloudy sky with possibility of light rain/thunderstorm at some areas in the city. The maximum and minimum temperatures are likely to be around 35 deg C and 22 deg C, respectively, on Sunday.