Following heavy rainfall reported from various parts of the State, roads in mountainous parts of the State are reported to be blocked due to landslides. Several roads along Gangotri and Badrinath highways are closed due to landslides.
As rains continue, Ganga is in spate in Haridwar, flowing just one metre below the warning level. The normal life in Kumaon and Garhwal divisions have been adversely affected following rainfall being reported from Friday evening. In Rudraprayag, Gaurikund highway is blocked due to landslide.
Rainfall was reported throughout Friday night at Pauri, Kotdwar, Dehradun and Haridwar, worsening things. Following the rise in the water level in Haridwar, power supply has been adversely affected in its around 60 villages since Friday noon.
One person was killed in a landslide triggered rains in Pithoragarh district on Thursday. Daan Singh died after being hit by boulders in Bangapani area of Pithoragarh district. this was confirmed by Pithoragarh SP Roshan lal Sharma on saturday.
Moreover, heavy to very heavy rainfall has been forecast across Uttarakhand during the next 48 hours. As per report received from Dehradun disaster control room, as many as six roads are blocked in Kalighat, Saiya, Kasli, Chakrata, Bosan village and Hathipau. Eight calls were received from various parts of the State at disaster control room with the rain-affected people recounting their woes.
In Dehradun, the sky was overcast throughout the day on Saturday. The Met office said that moderate rain/thundershowers might occur at many places across Uttarakhand till August 10, starting from Saturday.
The maximum temperature was reported to have come down by two notches to the normal while minimum was one degree above the normal in Dehradun district on Saturday.
The maximum and minimum temperatures are likely to be around 29ºC and 23ºC respectively in Dehradun on Sunday. The weather forecast for Dehradun on Sunday is one or two spells of heavy rain/thundershower might lash some areas across the district.
Over the past 24 hours by 8.30 am on Saturday, rainfall of varying degrees was reported from some places in the State. While 100 mm rainfall was reported in Ukhimath, it was 80 mm in Uttarkashi, 70 in Joshimath, 79.4 mm in Dehradun, 35.2 mm in Tehri, 4.8 mm in Mukteshwar, 0.2mm in Pantnagar, 30 mm each in Srinagar, Gangolighat, Dwarhat, Karanprayag, Kotdwar, 70 mm in Jakholi, 60 mm in Chamoli and 40 mm in Haridwar.
The Met centre director Bikram Singh informed that the maximum and minimum temperatures were recorded at 28.6ºC Celsius and 23.2ºC Celsius in Dehradun respectively while it was 20.8ºC and 15.5ºC in Mukteshwar, 22.3ºC and 17.0ºC in Tehri and 33.2ºC and 26.0ºC in Pantnagar respctively on Saturday.