Heavy rainfall has been forecast at isolated places, especially in districts across Kumaon region, during the next 24 hours starting from Friday evening. The Met office has forecast light to moderate rain/thundershowers at many places in Uttarakhand till August 2 starting from Saturday.
Dehradun and other parts of the state had rainfall during the morning hours on Friday. Students and office goers were inconvenienced as some of the city’s roads were waterlogged. The low- lying areas were the worst affected.
The weather forecast for Uttarakhand on Saturday is light to moderate rain /thundershowers at many places with moderate rainfall at isolated places in the state.
The weather forecast for Dehradun on Saturday is generally cloudy sky with possibility of one or two spells rain/ thunder showers in some areas. The maximum and minimum temperatures are likely to be around 31ºC and 21ºC respectively in Dehradun on Saturday.
Over the past 24 hours by 8.30 am on Friday, rainfall of varying degrees was reported from some places in the State. While 11.5 mm rainfall was reported in Dehradun it was 0.1 mm in Tehri, 14.7 mm in Mukteshwar and 3.2 mm in Pantnagar.
The Met centre director Vikram Singh informed that the maximum and minimum temperatures were recorded at 30.8ºC Celsius and 23.3ºC Celsius in Dehradun while it was 17.5ºC and 15.2ºC in Mukteshwar, 24.2ºC and 17.0ºC in Tehri and 28.6ºC and 25.0ºC in Pantnagar on Friday.