Dehradun residents faced searing heat and humidity on Saturday. Dry spell continuing across the State, it did not rain much in the plains of Uttarakhand over the past 24 hours. The hilly parts recorded sporadic rains, the meteorologists said.
However, the people might get a relief as the weather department predicted light rain/thunderstorm at isolated places, especially in Uttarkashi, Chamoli, Rudraprayag and Pithoragarh districts on May 15. Dry weather is what awaits the rest of Uttarakhand.
The Met director Bikram Singh said that the Weather forecast for Dehradun on Sunday is mainly clear sky with maximum and minimum temperatures likely to be around 38ºC and 22ºC respectively.
In Dehradun district, the maximum temperature was recorded around two degree above the normal on Friday.
Singh further informed that the maximum and minimum temperatures were recorded at 37.7ºC (two degree above normal) and 22.1ºC (two degree above the normal) in Dehradun while it was 25.6ºC (two degree above normal) and 13.8ºC (two degree above normal) in Mukteshwar, 27.2ºC and 16.6ºC in Tehri and 37.8ºC (one degree below the normal) and 22.2ºC (two degree above normal) in Pantnagar on Saturday.
According to Met office, very light to light rain/thunderstorm has been forecast at isolated places in Uttarkashi, Chamoli, Rudraprayag and Pithoragarh districts while dry weather would prevail in the rest of Uttarakhand on May 16. light rain/thunderstorm has been forecast for some places in Uttarkashi, Chamoli, Rudraprayag and Pithoragarh districts of Uttarakhand on May 17 and May 18.
By 8.30 am on Saturday, trace in Tehri, 10 mm in Munsiyari, 2.8 mm in Pithoragarh, 9.2 mm in Nainital, 1.0 mm in Champawat and 1.2 mm in Pantnagar have been recorded.