The Meteorological centre has forecast light rain/thunderstorm at isolated places in Uttarakhand on Friday. Dehradun residents experienced sweltering heat on Thursday. Traffic was thin in the day hours. Power going off added to their woes. Power- cuts were reported from Rajpur and Salawala area on Thursday.
Meteorological centre director Bikram Singh said that weather forecast in Dehradun on Friday is partly to generally cloudy sky. Thunder cloud development/ rain is likely to occur on Friday. The maximum and minimum temperatures are likely to be around 36ºC and 22ºC, respectively in Dehradun on Friday. Singh further informed that the maximum and minimum temperatures were recorded at 36.7ºC (three degree above the normal) and 19.7 ºC (two degree above the normal) in Dehradun while it was 26.4ºC (three degree above the normal) and 15.2ºC (one degree above the normal) in Tehri, 26.6ºC (three degree above the normal) and 12.3ºC (one degree above the normal) in Mukteshwar and 37.0ºC and 20.2ºC (three degree above the normal) in Pantnagar on Thursday.