The Uttarakhand Meteorological Centre has forecast very heavy rainfall at a few places in Nainital, Udham Singh Nagar, Champawat, Almora, Pauri, Haridwar, Dehradun and Tehri districts and heavy rain in rest of Uttarakhand during the next 72 hours. Moderate rainfall has been reported in Dehradun over the past 24 hours, bringing the mercury down by a few notches. The maximum temperature in Dehradun, Mukteshwar and Pantnagar was reported two, four and three notches below respectively to the normal on Friday. The maximum and minimum temperatures in capital are likely to be around 30ºC and 23ºC respectively on Saturday.
Over the past 24 hours by 8.30 am on Friday, rainfall was reported at few places. While 81.6 mm rainfall was reported in Nainital it was 43.6 mm in Dehradun, 22.2 mm in Uttarkashi, 6.0 mm in Mussoorie, 6.0 mm in Gairsain, 3.8 mm in Joshimath, 24.2 mm in Dhanauri, 5.8 mm in Pithoragarh, 5.4 mm in Matela, 18.2 mm in Mukteshwar, 12.0 mm in Champawat and 34.4 mm in Pantnagar, it is learnt. Singh further informed that the maximum and minimum temperatures were recorded at 29.7ºC Celsius and 23.9ºC Celsius in Dehradun while it was 19.4ºC and 16.9ºC in Mukteshwar, 24.2ºC and 18.6ºC in Tehri, 30.5ºC and 26.0ºC in Pantnagar on Friday.