Following weak western disturbances over Pakistan and Jammu & Kashmir, the Uttarakhand Meteorological Centre has forecasted the possibility of light rainfall at isolated places in the plains and snowfall in higher reaches of Uttarakhand on Friday.
Rainfall in plains and snowfall in higher reaches are expected to take place on December 30/31 in the State, he added. Singh said that Uttarakhand has received rai fall below than the normal this month so far while last year in the month of December, State had received normal rainfall. In the pre-monsoon season (from October to December), the State received below the normal rainfall this year. In the month of October, State received 29.1 mm rainfall which was around 50 percent below the normal. The normal rainfall in the month of October is 58.6 mm. In November, State received 3.2 mm rainfall which was below 67 per cent than normal.
The normal rainfall for November month is 9.7 mm. In December, State received rainfall below normal, though normal rain for this month is 21.3 mm. In Dehradun district, rainfall was recorded 8.4 mm while 0.8 mm in Tehri and 1.1 mm in Haridwar on December 22/23.In the last year, the State had received 8.8 mm rainfall which was below 85 per cent normal in the month of October. In November, the State had received 4.6 mm which was below 52 per cent normal. In December, the State had received 19.2 mm rainfall which was normal.
Singh further said that this month, the State has received below normal rainfall so far. Farmers should irrigate their crops because of chance of rainfall in this month is very minimal. Due to weak western disturbances over Pakistan and Jammu Kashmir, the Uttarakhand Meteorological may receive light rainfall at isolated places in the plains and snowfall in higher altitudes like Tapovan, Malari, Joshimath, Badrinath, Kedarnath, Gangotri, Kailash Mansarovar route, Auli and other places on Friday, he added.