Met forecasts more rain in State

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Moderate rain has been reported over the past 24 hours from across the State while the Met officials have forecast heavy rainfall at many places in Dehradun, Chamoli, Bageshwar, Pithoragarh, Udham Singh Nagar and Nainital districts during next 12 hours from Tuesday evening.

Uttarakhand Meteorological centre director Bikram Singh said Singh said that hails are likely to lash isolated places in the hilly areas of Uttarkashi, Rudraprayag and Tehri districts during next 12 hours.

He further   that the Met official has been monitoring the movement of the monsoon. He said that the monsoon is likely to withdraw from Uttarakhand by the last week of September.

In Dehradun, things were humid, though it drizzled in some areas in the evening on Tuesday.

The weather forecast for Uttarakhand for Wednesday is light to moderate rainfall/thundershowers at many places across the state.

The weather forecast for Dehradun for the day is generally cloudy sky and rain/thundershowers at many places.

The maximum and minimum temperatures are likely to be around 32ºC and 23ºC respectively in Dehradun on.

The weathermen said that the maximum and minimum temperatures were recorded at 32.2ºC Celsius and 23.5ºC Celsius in Dehradun respectively while it was 18.2ºC and 12.1ºC in Mukteshwar, 23.4ºC and 15.0ºC in Tehri and 32.0ºC and 22.4ºC in Pantnagar on Tuesday.

The Met office said that rainfall of varying intensity would continue across the state till September 17.

The Met office has forecast light rainfall at isolated places from September 16 to September 18 while light to moderate rainfall has been forecast at many places from September 19 to September 21.

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