Moderate rain lashed Dehradun on Thursday noon, providing relief to the people who had been grappling with a sultry climate for the past few days. While 32 mm rainfall was reported at Clock Tower while drizzling occurred in other parts of the state capital, said Bikram Singh, director of Meteorological centre .
While Dehradun experienced 90 per cent humidity it was 78 per cent in New Tehri, 80 per cent in Mukteshwar and 93 percent in Pantnagar on Thursday. As it rained in the hills the water level of the rivers has seen a rise.
The students were inconvenience as it started raining around the time their school hours were over. It rained for over three hours. Their hardship was compounded as some roads were waterlogged.
The weather forecast for Uttarakhand on Friday is partly to generally cloudy sky with possibility of light to moderate rain/thunderstormat isolated places in Uttarakhand.
The weather forecast for Dehradun on Friday is partly to generally cloudy sky and thunder cloud development/light rain in some areas. The maximum and minimum temperatures are likely to be around 32 degree Celsius and 21 degree Celsius respectively in Dehradun on Friday.
Monsoon remaining normal in Uttarakhand during the past 24 hours, 30 mm rainfall was reported in Uttarkashi by 8.30 am on Thursday. The highest maximum temperature of the state 36.6°C was recorded at Jaspur. The maximum temperature was 32.5 degree Celsius- three notches above the normal –in Dehradun while the minimum was 23.3 degree Celsius- one notch above the normal- in the city on Thursday, Singh added.