Despite the Met office having warned of heavy to very heavy rainfall for two days starting from Monday, Dehradun had not a drop on Tuesday.
However, the weather office said there would be heavy to very heavy rainfall at a few places across Dehradun, Haridwar, Pauri, Nainital, Almora, Champawat and Udham Singh Nagar districts on Wednesday. At some places, it might be extremely heavy, the Met office warned. It said that the spell of heavy to very heavy to extremely heavy rainfall would continue for the next 24 hours starting from Tuesday night. Dehradun remained cloudy throughout Tuesday.”
However, we are relieved that there is no rain on Tuesday. We wonder what would happen tomorrow,” said a resident of the city, Swanti Negi.
The weather forecast for Dehradun on Wednesday is partly to generally cloudy sky with possibility of one or two spells of light to moderate rain/thunder showers. Some of the showers might be heavy in some areas.
The maximum and minimum temperatures in Dehradun are likely to be around 30ºC and 20ºC respectively on Wednesday. The Met centre director Vikram Singh informed that the maximum and minimum temperatures were recorded at 30.0ºC Celsius and 23.4ºC Celsius in Dehradun while it was 18.0ºC and 15.7ºC in Mukteshwar, 22.8ºC and 17.8ºC in Tehri and 28.2ºC and 25.1ºC in Pantnagar on Tuesday. Moreover, the Meteorological centre has forecast light to moderate rain/thundershowers at many places in Uttarakhand till July 30.