Dip in temperature following rainfall at higher reaches and cloudy sky throughout the day brought relief to the residents of Uttarakhand from the raging heat on Monday. The Met office revealed that the mercury level which had been hovering around 40 degrees Celsius before Friday dipped by around 8 notches as a result of the rain-spells at isolated places in the State. However, the Met office has forecast rain/thunderstorm at isolated places especially in the hills of the Uttarakhand.
Informed of the fact that clime has turned cool in Uttarakhand, considerable number of tourists from Delhi, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Bihar and West Bengal keep swarming into several tourist destinations like Dhanaulti, Mussoorie and Sahastradhara. Uttarakhand Meteorological Centre director Anand Sharma said that the State has not yet received what is known as pre-monsoon rain. He attributed the showers happening at various places of the state due to cyclonic circulation over some districts of western Uttar Pradesh.
The State Meteorological Centre is still not in a position to say anything about the tentative time monsoon would finally arrive in the state. The maximum and minimum temperatures were recorded at 32.4 degree Celsius and 21.4 degree Celsius, respectively in Dehradun on Monday. The weather forecast for Dehradun on Tuesday is partly cloudy sky with possibility of thunder cloud development in some areas. The maximum and minimum temperatures are likely to be around 34 degree Celsius and 21 degree Celsius on Tuesday.