The Met department having issued a heavy to very heavy rainfall warning for many places in Kumaon region of the State on July 5 and July 6, the district administrations are busy making arrangements to take on any rain-spawned emergencies.
Though it drizzled intermittently in Dehradun the people suffered as the humidity level was close to 95 per cent. It was 86 per cent in New Tehri, 98 percent in Mukteshwar and 96 per cent in Pantnagar. However, the mountainous parts of Dehradun district has seen heavy downpour on Tuesday.
Meteorological centre director Bikram Singh said that the weather forecast for Uttarakhand on Wednesday is generally cloudy sky with the possibility of light to moderate rain/thunder showers at many places. The weather forecast for Dehradun on Wednesday is generally cloudy sky and one or two spells of rain/thunder showers at many places. The maximum and minimum temperatures are likely to be around 30ºC and 23ºC respectively in Dehradun on Wednesday.
The maximum temperature was 33.7 degree Celsius- two notches above the normal -in the city on Tuesday while the minimum was 23.4 degree Celsius –normal. The highest maximum temperature 36.7°C was recorded at Ghansali in the state on Tuesday.
Over the past 24 hours by 8.30 am on Tuesday, light to moderate rainfall occurred at many places while heavy rainfall at isolated places. While 90 mm rainfall was reported from Kapkot over the above same period 70 mm in Dharchula, 40 mm in Banbasa, 30 mm in Dehradun, 0.2 mm in Tehri and 12.8 mm in Pantnagar.