Drizzle during evening hours in Dehradun on Friday brought relief to the residents from the searing heat prevailing for the past few days.
The Meteorological centre has forecast very light rain/thunderstorm at isolated places especially in Uttarkashi, Chamoli, Rudraprayag and Pithoragarh districts of the State on Saturday too.
On Friday, the maximum temperature was reported one notch less than that of Thursday.
Dehradun residents experienced sweltering heat till noon on Friday and later winds blew followed by drizzling during evening hours. Drizzle helped the mercury get down a bit, providing eagerly awaited respite to the people.
However, power-cuts continued to add to the heat-spawned suffering of the people. Power outages were reported from many parts of the State capital, including Salawala, Rajpur, Raipur, Shivlok Colony and Ballupur on Friday too. Power going off added to their woes.
However, the Uttarakhand Power Corporation limited (UPCl) official flatly denied through its press release that there had been power-cuts in any part of Dehradun on Friday, saying that the demand and supply were evenly balanced.
Vani Vihar resident Sohan sounded angry, saying that the department should have taken measures to stop the recurrence of power cuts when they were down with the scorching summer heat.
Meteorological centre director Bikram Singh said that weather forecast in Dehradun on Saturday is partly cloudy sky. Thunder cloud development/ rain is likely to occur in some places on Saturday.
The maximum and minimum temperatures are likely to be around 35ºC and 19ºC, respectively in Dehradun on Saturday. Singh further informed that the maximum and minimum temperatures were recorded at 35.4ºC (one degree above the normal) and 19 ºC (one degree above the normal) in Dehradun while it was 24.2ºC (three degree above the normal) and 15.9ºC (one degree above the normal) in Tehri, 26.2ºC (three degree above the normal) and 12.2ºC (one degree above the normal) in Mukteshwar and 38.6ºC and 15.2ºC in Pantnagar on Friday.