The regional meteorological centre has issued a fresh warning of the cold wave condition sweeping across a large swathe of the plain areas of Uttarakhand for the next 24 hours. Besides, there is a warning of moderate to dense fog forming in several places in the plains of the State, particularly, Haridwar and Udham Singh Nagar districts, during the early morning hours on Saturday.
In a yellow watch warning issued on Friday, the Met centre said that the cold wave condition would take in its freezing grip a large part of the plain areas of the Himalayan State on Saturday. Besides, as per the warning, fog might bring down visibility substantially during the morning hours on Saturday.
The weather forecast issued for Friday said that the climate would be generally dry in the State, though the sky would be partly cloudy.
In Dehradun, dense fog is likely to form in the plain areas in the early morning hours on the day and the sky would be partly cloudy. The same would be experienced in two plain districts-Haridwar and Udham Singh Nagar-on Saturday.
Meanwhile, the mercury in Dehradun continued to settle in the neighbourhood of 5 degree Celsius, two degrees below the normal. As per the earlier Met forecast, it might snow in the places with altitude of 2500 meters and above from December 23 while the queen of hills Mussoorie and the lake city Nainital might record fresh snowfall from Dec 28, something the tourists and the hoteliers are expectantly waiting for.
In Dehradun, the day was generally sunny to partly cloudy on Friday. While the maximum temperature settled at 22.7 degree Celsius, one degree above the normal, the minimum was 5 degree Celsius, two notches below the normal, on the day.
In other places of the State, the maximum and minimum temperatures were recorded at 21.7 degree Celsius and 2.5 degree Celsius respectively in Pantnagar on Friday.
At Mukteshwar, the maximum and minimum temperatures were recorded at 15.6 degree Celsius and 3.8 degree Celsius.. In New Tehri, the maximum and minimum temperatures recorded were 16 degree Celsius and 4.4 degree Celsius respectively on the day.