Cloudy sky with winds and drizzle on Monday brought relief to the people of Dehradun who had been grappling with soaring mercury and grueling humidity for the past few days.
The sky remained cloudy since Sunday night. The eagerly awaited rain came in the evening. The people were found getting drenched as they had to suffer a lot due to scorching heat that seared them for days on end.
The mercury came down a bit after the rains to the respite of the people who had to put up with the spiralling temperature that crossed the 40 degree Celsius mark a few days ago.
Swati, resident of Mohit Nagar, said she was exulted as rains came finally on Monday evening. “Met official has been forecasting rain since the past few days. But it remained elusive. Finally it came. I along with my family members enjoyed the rain while getting drenched. I hope things would remain so for the coming days,” she said.
Reaction of Rohit, a college student, was no different. “The heat was so searing that I ascended to Mussoorie on Sunday evening to get respite. I am happy that things have cooled now in Dehradun too after it rained here. But we need more heavy spells of rains to cool things off,” he said.
Sohan, resident of Kewal Vihar, said that the overcast sky since the morning had filled their hearts with hope that it would rain. “For many days during this scorching summer, rains proved a chimera. We long for more rains,” he said.
Meteorological centre has forecast light to moderate rain/thunderstorm at many places in Uttarakhand on Tuesday. It has released warning that thunder squall (speed reaching 50-60 KMPH)/hailstorm might lash out at several places in Uttarakhand during the next 36 hours.
The weather forecast for Dehradun on Tuesday is generally cloudy sky and rain/thunderstorm in some areas. The maximum and minimum temperatures are likely to be around 35ºC and 24ºC respectively in Dehradun on Tuesday.
The Met office has forecast generally cloudy sky and light to moderate rain/thunderstorm at many places in Uttarakhand on May 25.
Very light to light rain/thunderstorm has been forecast at isolated places in Uttarakhand on May 26 and May 27 too.
By 8.30 am on Monday , rains were recorded as- trace in Pithoragarh, 0.2 mm in Mukteshwar, 28.5 mm in Nainital, 18.4 mm in Pantnagar, 4.0 mm in Munsiyari, 1.0 mm in Dhanauri and 1.2 mm in Dehradun.
Singh further informed that the maximum and minimum temperatures were recorded at 36.2ºC (one degree above normal) and 25.14ºC (four degree above the normal) in Dehradun while it was 26.6ºC (three degree above normal) and 14.2ºC (two degree above normal) in Mukteshwar, 28.6ºC (four degree above normal) and 18.6ºC (two degree above normal) in Tehri and 31.5ºC (five degree below the normal) and 20.8ºC (one degree above the normal) in Pantnagar on Monday.