The State has been experiencing scorching heat during the daytime for some days now which is also causing inconvenience to the candidates of various political parties and independent candidates campaigning for the lok Sabha election 2014. The continued rise in the mercury level has affected normal life in various places in the State. Due to western disturbances, the weather condition may improve in the mountainous parts of the state after Friday noon.
The rising heat is affecting campaign by candidates and their supporters trying to motivate the voters in their favour. Some party workers said that they are facing difficulties in conducting door to door campaigns and public meetings due to the heat. At some places, political leaders are not eliciting good response from the public during door to door campaign due to the rising temperature.
Samajwadi Party State president Dr Satyanarayan Sachan said, “Due to heat wave, I am not well feeling. Despite this, I am taking part in election campaign as polling date is not far away.”In Dehradun, on Thursday the maximum temperature hovered above 37 degrees Celsius about three degrees above the normal while minimum temperature was recorded at 22 degrees C about one degree above the normal.
Since western disturbances are underway so weather condition may improve on Char Dham Yatra routes and other parts in higher reaches during the next three days. Uttarakhand Meteorological Centre director Anand Sharma said that the weather forecast for Dehradun on Friday is partly cloudy sky and thunder cloud development in some areas.The maximum and minimum temperatures are likely to be around 39 degree C and 22 degree C respectively on Friday. The weather forecast for Uttarakhand on Friday is light rain/thunder shower at isolated places in the mountains especially in higher reaches of Uttarkashi, Chamoli, Rudraprayag and Pithoragarh districts with mainly dry weather in rest of Uttarakhand.