The district magistrates of several districts of the state have put disaster management officials on alert following hailstorm and heavy rainfall warning for Dehradun, Tehri, Haridwar, Pauri, Nainital, Champawat and Udham Singh Nagar districts during 72 hours starting from Thursday morning.
The spell of rain/snow has already stated on Wednesdayas it rained and snowed at several places in Uttarakhand. The Met office has forecast moderate snow for places with height 3000 m and above for four days starting from March 9.
While 10 mm rainfall was reported each from Barkot, Uttarkashi, Joshimath, Mussoorie, Tehri, Ukhimath, Dunda and Chinyalisaur the figure was 5 mm in Dehradun.
In Dehradun, the sky was overcast since the morning and it rained too on Wednesday. The climate turned cool with the maximum temperature having dipped by ten notches. While the maximum was 26 degree Celsius in the city on Tuesday it plummeted to 16 degree following the rain and the change in the climate.
The Met official has issued warning of hailstorm lashing isolated places in Dehradun, Tehri, Haridwar, Pauri, Nainital, Champawat and Udham Singh Nagar districts during next 72 hours from Thursday morning and heavy rain/snow at isolated places across Kumaun region and several districts like Uttarkashi, Chamoli and Rudraprayag of Garhwal region during the same period.
While the highest maximum temperature 26.1°C was recorded at Pantnagar the lowest minimum temperature 2.1°C was recorded at New Tehri.
The weather forecast for Dehradun on Thursday is cloudy to overcast sky and few spells of light rain/thundershowers at many places. The maximum and minimum temperatures are likely to be around 18ºC and 12ºC respectively in Dehradun on Thursday.
While the maximum settled at 18.0ºC (eight degree below the normal) and the minimum at 13.5ºC (two degree above the normal) in Dehradun it was 9.0ºC (eight degree below the normal) and 4.7ºC (one degree below the normal) in Mukteshwar and 26.1ºC (two degree below the normal) and 10.5ºC (one degree above the normal) in Pantnagar on Wednesday. In Tehri district, maximum temperature was reported as 4.0 degree Celsius while the minimum was 2.1 degree Celsius on Wednesday.