With the rainy season hitting the State in a few days, the officers manning the disaster control room asked the people in the disaster- prone areas or in the remote parts of Dehradun district to call up the up disaster control room by dialling 0135-2726066 and Toll Free number 1077. They assured that they would act once such calls are made.
Meteorological centre director Bikram Singh said on Thursday that light to moderate rain had occurred at many places in Uttarakhand. By 8.30 am on Thursday, 60 mm rainfall was reported in Banbasa, 40 mm in Nainital, 30 mm each in Ranikhet, Mukteshwar, Haldwani and Dharchula and 6 mm rainfall in Dehradun.
Moreover, moderate rain/thunder showers are also likely to lash all the five shrines -Gangotri, Yamunotri, Kedarnath, Badrinath and Hemkund Sahib- for some days till June 28. Singh said that the weather forecast for Dehradun is mainly clear to partly cloudy sky with possibility of thunder cloud development in some areas. The maximum and minimum temperatures are likely to be around 34 ºC and 21 ºC respectively in the city on Friday, Singh added.
Meanwhile, the maximum temperature settled at 33.2ºC (normal) while the minimum at 20.4ºC (three degree below the normal) in Dehradun. It was 22.2ºC (one degree above the normal) and 12.3ºC (two degree below the normal) in Mukteshwar and 35.8ºC (one degree above the normal) and 21.4ºC (four degree below the normal) in Pantnagar. In Tehri district, maximum temperature was reported as 23.2 degree Celsius while the minimum was 13.6 degree Celsius on Thursday.
While light rain/thunder shower is likely to occur at isolated places in Uttarkashi, Chamoli, Rudraprayag, Bageshwar and Pithoragarh districts things would remain dry in the rest of Uttarakhand on June 23 and June 24, Singh added.