light to moderate rainfall reported from various parts of the State on Friday has relived the residents of the heat-tinged humidity they were suffering from. Moreover, heavy rainfall has been forecast in districts like Dehradun, Haridwar Pauri, Tehri, Uttarkashi, Rudraprayag, Bageshwar and Pithoragarh during the next 12 hours, starting from Friday evening. The Met office said that moderate rain/thundershowers might occur at many places across Uttarakhand till August 9 from Friday.
In Dehradun, light to moderate rainfall was reported from some areas, particularly those adjacent to the mountainous parts.
Students were found drenched while coming back home from the schools around noon. However, during the morning hours, the maximum temperature soared to five notches above the normal in Dehradun while it was three and two notches above the normal respectively in Pantnagar and Mukteshwar.
The maximum and minimum temperatures are likely to be around 32ºC and 25ºC respectively in Dehradun on Saturday. Over the past 24 hours by 8.30 am on Friday, rainfall of varying degrees was reported from some places in the state. While 70 mm rainfall was reported from Rudraprayag, it was 80 mm from Ukhimath, 20 mm in Karanprayag, 20 mm in Didihat, 20 mm in Uttarkashi and 0.2mm in Tehri.
The Met centre director Bikram Singh informed that the maximum and minimum temperatures were recorded at 35.4ºC Celsius and 25.9ºC Celsius in Dehradun respectively while it was 23.4ºC and 16.3ºC in Mukteshwar, 25.2ºC and 18.6ºC in Tehri and 36.3ºC and 26.8ºC in Pantnagar on Friday.