light to moderate rainfall at isolated places in Uttarakhand brought much relief to public in Dehradun and other areas from hot and humid condition on Friday. With the level of mercury registering some drop caused by rain, the meteorological centre has forecast light to moderate rain/thunderstorm at isolated places in Uttarakhand on Saturday.
The State meteorological centre director Bikram Singh said that a trough in lower levels from Punjab to north coastal Karnataka across Haryana and west Uttar Pradesh likely to prevail from June 4 to 9. Another trough from Punjab to Assam in lower levels is likely to prevail from June 7 to 10. This is forecast to effect light to moderate rain/thunderstorm at isolated places on June 4 and 5. light to moderate rain/thunderstorm is likely to occur at a few places on June 6 and at many places from June 7 to 10 over Uttarakhand. The Met office has issued warning forecastin heavy rainfall at isolated places in Uttarakhand from June 7 to 9.
In Dehradun, the sky was overcast since the morning on Friday with a spell of moderate rain measuring about 16 mm being experienced in the noon. Many localities in different parts of the city were water logged following the spell of rain causing inconvenicne to local residents and road users. The clogged drains and waterlogging in Dehradun has raised questions regarding the claims being made by the administration regarding preparations for the coming rainy season.
Singh said that the weather forecast for Dehradun on Saturday is partly cloudy sky and thunder cloud development in some areas. The maximum and minimum temperatures are likely to be around 36ºC and 24ºC respectively on Saturday. HE further informed that the maximum and minimum temperatures were recorded at 35.9ºC (normal) and 24.5ºC (three degree above the normal) in Dehradun while it was 25.5ºC (one degree above the normal) and 14.7ºC (one degree above the normal) in Mukteshwar, 26.4ºC (normal) and 17.6ºC (normal) in Tehri and 36.9ºC (one degree below the normal) and 27.0ºC (five degree above the normal) in Pantnagar on Friday.
Over the past 24 hours by 8.30 am on Friday, rainfall was reported in various parts of the state measuring 4.2 mm in Dehradun, 18.0 mm in Gairsain, 3 mm in Munsyari, 0.2 mm in Pithoragarh, 4.2 mm in Mukteshwar and 2 mm in Champawat.