Dehradun residents continued to reel under the warm spell with the mercury settling at over 35 degree Celsius on Wednesday. Bikram Singh, director of Meteorological centre, said dry weather will prevail for the next two days with no possibility of rain giving a respite to the people from the searing heat. The maximum temperature had settled at 35.8°C in Dehradun on Wednesday while it was 35.2 on Tuesday.
Singh said that the highest maximum temperature 36.4 °C was recorded at Ghansali while the lowest minimum temperature 12.2°C was recorded at Munsiyari on Wednesday.
However, people may get relief as Meteorological centre has forecast very light to light rain/thunder storm at a few places in Uttarakhand on April 1 and 2.
While the maximum settled at 35.8ºC (seven degree above the normal) and the minimum at 18.5ºC (four degree above the normal) in Dehradun it was 27.2ºC (eight degree above the normal) and 12.8ºC (six degree above the normal) in Mukteshwar and 35.0ºC (three degree above the normal) and 17.5ºC (four degree above the normal) in Pantnagar on Wednesday. In Tehri district, maximum temperature was reported as 25.6 degree Celsius while the minimum was 14.4 degree Celsius on Wednesday.
The weather forecast for Dehradun on Thursday is clear sky. The maximum and minimum temperatures are likely to be around 35ºC and 17ºC respectively in Dehradun.