As the city was lashed by heavy rainfall on Tuesday, the State Meteorological Centre has forecast more of heavy showers at isolated places across the State, including Dehradun, during the next 24 hours. A yellow watch has been issued by the Met department for some places in the state for the period.
Speaking of the weather of the coming days, the Director of the State Met Centre Bikram Singh said on Tuesday, “The State as well as Dehradun city is going to record heavy rainfall for two more days from Wednesday. After this heavy spell, the State is likely to have subdued rain activity and the rainfall would remain normal.” He, further, informed that several areas in Kumaon region, particularly Haldwani and Dharchula, had recorded torrential shower on Tuesday. “Dehradun too experienced heavy shower on the day. Close to 81 mm rain has been recorded in the city in the evening hours on Tuesday. The spell was heavy and was very close to the condition of cloudburst,” he said.
Several roads were waterlogged following the heavy rain and the power supply snapped too. Traffic crawled on many roads and the commuters faced problems. “Things were very bad on the roads of the city after the heavy shower spell. The drains were choked at many places, aggravating things for us. Traffic jams were witnessed on most of the roads of the city as they were under water,” said a resident. Many said they had to grapple with prolonged power cuts following the rain.
The weather department has forecast more rain and thundershower in the city on Wednesday too. Some of the spells might be heavy, the officers warned.
The maximum and minimum temperatures recorded in various town of the state on Tuesday was 31.9 degree Celsius and 24.0 degree Celsius in Dehradun, 33.9 degree Celsius and 26.2 degree Celsius in Pantnagar, 22.0 degree Celsius and 15.3 degree Celsius in Mukteshwar, 23.6 degree Celsius and 17.6 degree Celsius in New Tehri.