Rain brings relief from scorching heat

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Cloudy sky and drizzling have brought the Dehradun residents relief from hot and humid condition on Thursday.

In Dehradun, the sky was overcast since the morning on Thursday. It drizzled in the afternoon, bringing down the mercury by a few notches. The Met office has forecast light to moderate rain/thunderstorm at isolated places in Uttarakhand on Friday. The Met office has forecast light to moderate rain/thunderstorm at isolated places in Uttarakhand till June 6, it is learnt.

Met director Bikram Singh said that the weather forecast for Dehradun on Friday is mainly clear to partly cloudy sky and thunder cloud development in some areas. The maximum and minimum temperatures are likely to be around 36ºC and 25ºC respectively on Friday.

Singh further informed that the maximum and minimum temperatures were recorded at 36ºC (normal) and 24.4ºC (three degree above the normal) in Dehradun while it was 23.3ºC (one degree below the normal) and 14.7ºC (two degree above the normal) in Mukteshwar, 26.4ºC (normal) and 17.6ºC (normal) in Tehri and 35.4ºC (two degree below the normal) and 27.8ºC (five degree above the normal) in Pantnagar on Thursday.

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