lack of rainfall in the State Capital on Thursday facilitated the women and girls to celebrate Raksha Bandhan with full vigour. The Uttarakhand Meteorological Centre has forecast very light to light rainfall/thundershowers at a few places with moderate rainfall at isolated places in Uttarakhand on Friday.
Moreover, light to moderate rainfall has been forecast at isolated places from Saturday to August 22. Dehradun enjoyed sunshine for most parts of the day.
Over the past 24 hours by 8.30 am on Thursday, rainfall of varying degrees was reported from some places in the state. While 6.7 mm rainfall was reported from Dehradun, it was 7.3 mm in Tehri, 0.6 mm in Mukteshwar, 40 mm in Puraula, 30 mm in Mauro, 30 mm in Tiuni, 20 mm each in Ghansali, Jakholi and Dunda.
The weather forecast for Dehradun on Friday is partly cloudy sky and light rain/thundershower at many places. The maximum and minimum temperatures are likely to be around 33ºC and 23ºC respectively in Dehradun the same day.
The maximum temperature was recorded four notches above the normal in the city while the minimum was normal on Wednesday. In Pantnagar, maximum and minimum temperatures were reported two notches above the normal. In Mukteshwar, the maximum and minimum temperatures were reported one degree notch above the normal.
The Met centre director Bikram Singh informed that the maximum and minimum temperatures were recorded at 34.0ºC Celsius and 23.1ºC Celsius in Dehradun respectively while it was 22.0ºC and 15.3ºC in Mukteshwar, 24.8ºC and 15.6ºC in Tehri and 34.0ºC and 26.9ºC in Pantnagar on Thursday.