The State Meteorological Centre has issued ‘heavy’ to ‘very heavy’ rainfall alert for the city as well as for a large swathe of the State on Saturday. The same condition might be witnessed for the next three days, the weather officers said. The districts marked for the very heavy shower warning include Dehradun, Nainital, Champawat, Udham Singh Nagar, Rudraprayag, Haridwar and Pauri.
Acting on the heavy shower alert, the District Magistrates of several districts have declared holiday in the schools on Saturday. Direct general of education Alok Shekhar Tiwari has also said that the school authorities can declare the same, depending on the weather condition on the day.
The State Met Centre has also issued an advisory to the people, particularly those living in the low-lying areas in the plains of Uttarakhand, to be very alert and to closely coordinate with the Government authorities especially on September 2 and 3.
The maximum and minimum temperatures recorded in the various towns of the State on Friday were 29.4 degree Celsius and 23. 7 degree Celsius in Dehradun, 29.5 degree Celsius and 24.5 degree Celsius in Pantnagar, 18.6 degree Celsius and 14.8 degree Celsius in Mukteshwar and 23.2 degree degree Celsius and 18.0 degree Celsius in New Tehri.