Rainfall at isolated places in the State has helped mercury come down on Friday. Met office has forecast continuing rain in the State till May 13.
The Met office has forecast light rain/thunderstorm at several places, especially in Uttarkashi, Chamoli, Rudraprayag and Pithoragarh districts, on Saturday.
The Met director Bikram Singh said that the east-west trough from Punjab to Northwest Bay of Bengal with embedded cyclonic circulations and another over east Uttar Pradesh and neighbourhood is likely to prevail till May 13 as a result of which wide-spread rains would continue for few more days.
The possibilities of rains turn brighter with western disturbance (WD) moving across Afghanistan, North Pakistan and northern parts of Jammu and Kashmir from May 11 to May 13, the weatherman said. Under their influence, scattered to fairly widespread thunderstorm activities are expected aside from rainfall at many places on May 12 and May 13. light rainfall has been forecast at many places on May 9, 10 and 11 at a few places in Uttarakhand. The maximum temperatures are likely to remain near normal or below normal across the State for most part of the week.
The Met director has issued advisory to farmers to take necessary measures as per the need. The water management authorities have been advised to take necessary measures to ensure that rainwater is rightly used.
The weather forecast for Dehradun on Saturday is clear to partly cloudy sky. Thunder cloud development is likely to occur at many places. The maximum and minimum temperatures are likely to be around 34ºC and 18ºC respectively in Dehradun on Saturday.
Things are now fairly pleasant in Dehradun with the maximum temperature having come down by a few notches. In the higher reaches, the mercury has dipped below the normal. In the capital, it rained in the evening. The sky remained overcast for most part of the day.
Singh further informed that the maximum and minimum temperatures were recorded at 34.4ºC (normal) and 18.1ºC (two degree below the normal) in Dehradun while it was 23.0ºC (three degree below normal) and 10.6ºC (one degree below normal) in Tehri, 20.2ºC (three degree below normal) and 10.0ºC (one degree below normal) in Mukteshwar and 34.4ºC (two degree below the normal) and 20.0ºC (normal) in Pantnagar on Friday.
Singh said that light to moderate rainfall has been reported from mountainous parts of the State. By 8.30 am on Friday, 12.0 mm in Mussoorie, 0.2 mm in Dehradun, 40.7 mm in Tehri, 11.0 mm in Ghansali, 3.0 mm in Ranichauri, 1.0 mm in Gairsain, trace in Pithoragarh and 1.0 mm in Matela have been recorded.