Heavy rain forecast along Char Dham Yatra routes

Uttarakhand Meteorological Centre has forecast heavy rainfall at many places, especially along Char Dham Yatra routes, on Thursday.  Moderate rain/thunderstorm would occur across the State. Rather heavy rain would occur at a few places. There is also very heavy rain forecast  at 

isolated places across Chamoli, Champawat, Almora, Nainital and Pauri districts of the State.

 The State administration is gearing up in view of the heavy to very heavy rainfall warning sounded by the Met office during the next 48 hours starting Thursday morning at many places in several districts like Chamoli, Rudraprayag, Pauri, Nainital, Almora and Champawat. 

Dehradun residents 

experienced  hot and humid conditions till the evening when  rain occurred.  The maximum and minimum temperatures were recorded 31.0°C and 25.7°C respectively in Dehradun 

on Wednesday.  

Dehradun received light rainfall around 1 mm by 8. 30 am on Wednesday, taking the past 24 hours. As per Met office report, light rainfall was reported in various parts of the state. Director of State Meteorological Centre, Anand Sharma said that one or two spells of moderate  rain/ thunder showers would occur in some areas in Dehradun on Thursday. In Dehradun, the maximum and minimum temperatures are likely to be around 27 degree Celsius and 24 degree Celsius respectively on Thursday.