The Meteorological Department has predicted heavy rain at isolated places especially in Nainital, Udham Singh Nagar and Champawat districts of Uttarakhand.
The weather department has also issued a warning alert of heavy to very heavy rain at few places in Nainital, Udham Singh Nagar, Champawat, Almora, Pauri, Haridwar, Dehradun and Tehri districts during the next 72 hours starting from today.
Keeping in view of the alert, all District Administrations have been asked to take precautionary measures.
Director of the state Met. Department Vikram Singh has said that a low pressure line between the Bay of Bengal and Punjab is triggering the rains and the western disturbance is also moving and it will approach Afghanistan and Jammu and Kashmir in the next two to three days.