Various parts of the State continued to experience comparatively warm weather on Friday with the State meteorological centre forecasting mainly clear to partly cloudy sky across the State on the weekend.
According to the meteorological centre forecast, dry weather is likely to prevail in Uttarakhand on Saturday. For the provisional State capital Dehradun, the weather forecast for Saturday is a mainly clear sky with the maximum and minimum temperatures likely to be around 36ºC and 18ºC respectively.
Meanwhile, on Friday, as per the information provided by the state meteorological centre, the provisional State capital experienced maximum and minimum temperatures of 34.8 °C and 18.4 °C respectively. Similarly, the maximum and minimum temperatures recorded in other parts of the state on Friday were reported to be 35.6 °C and 17.8 °C in Pantnagar, 24 °C and 12. 1 °C in Mukteshwar, and 23 °C and 13.8 °C in New Tehri respectively.
It is pertinent to mention here that the weather conditions being experienced in the provisional State capital Dehradun these days consist of considerably warm days coupled with cool nights with considerable gap between the maximum and minimum temperatures.
Though this provides some relief to the people at night, the fluctuation in temperature has also increased the prevailance of incidence of varied weather influenced health conditions.
In the coming days the meteorologists have forecast a spike in the mercury level between April 17 and 20. During this period the maximum temperature in the plain regions is forecast to rise upto 39 °C to 41 °C with the same likely to reach between 29 °C to 31 °C in the mountainous regions.
However, some rain is forecast in the state from April 22, which might bring some relief from the rising temperatures, forecast the meteorologists.