Mercury in Dehradun hovering in the nighbourhood of 6 degree Celsius in the night and the morning hours, the weathermen have forecast formation of fog mainly during morning/night hours in some parts of plains of Uttarakhand like Haridwar, Nainital and Udham Singh Nagar districts during the next two days.
Dehradun residents, though having started feeling the real cold in the nights and mornings, are, however, relishing the relative warmth of the day hours.
Met director Bikram Singh said that the weather forecast for Uttarakhand on Saturday is mainly clear to partly cloudy sky, though it would be mainly dry across the state. The weather forecast for Dehradun on Saturday is mainly clear sky. The maximum and minimum temperatures are likely to be around 24 ºC and 08 ºC respectively on Saturday.
Singh said that the maximum and minimum temperatures were recorded at 24.6ºC (three degree above the normal) and 7.0ºC (normal) in Dehradun respectively while it was 17.2ºC (three degree above the normal) and 5.6ºC (three degree above the normal) in Mukteshwar, 17.7ºC and 6.2ºC in Tehri and 23.0ºC (normal) and 5.5ºC (one degree below the normal) in Pantnagar on Friday. Minimum temperatures remained normal in the plains while they were still above normal in the hills of the state. lowest minimum temperature 2.0°C was recorded in Nainital. The weather forecast for the state till December 20 is mainly clear to partly cloudy sky.