light to moderate rain is likely to occur at many places in Uttarakhand. Snowfall is likely to occur at places at altitudes of 2500 metres and above on Monday. Moreover, hail has also been forecast at isolated places in Uttarakhand especially in Chakrata, Mussoorie, New Tehri, Pauri, Pithoragarh, Mukteshwar and Nainital during next 24 hours starting from Monday evening.
Meteorological centre officials said that sunny day was witnessed in the provisional state capital on Sunday. The mercury level rising up, the minimum temperature settled at 7.9 degree Celsius, a notch above the normal, in the city on Sunday.
The Uttarakhand Meteorological Centre director Bikram Singh said that a fresh western disturbance is likely to affect western Himalayan region on Monday. The mercury in the plains is likely to dip by a few notches if it rains and snows in the mountainous areas of the state on Monday.
Very light to light rain/snow is likely to occur at isolated places in Uttarkashi, Chamoli and Pithoragarh districts especially in the higher reaches. Dry weather likely to prevail in rest of Uttarakhand on Tuesday.
While the highest maximum temperature 26.2°C was recorded at Dehradun on Sunday, the lowest minimum temperature of 0.3°C was recorded at Matela in Almora district.
He said that the weather forecast for Dehradun on Monday is partly to generally cloudy sky and thunder cloud development/light rain during evening hours.
The maximum and minimum temperatures are likely to be around 25 degree Celsius and 9 degree Celsius respectively in Dehradun on Monday.
On Sunday, the maximum temperature and minimum temperatures were recorded at 26.2 degree Celsius, five notches above the normal, and 7.9 degree Celsius, one notch above the normal, respectively in Dehradun. In Pantnagar, the maximum and minimum temperatures were recorded at 25.4 degree Celsius, three notches above the normal, and 3.4 degree Celsius, two notches below the normal, respectively.
In Mukteshwar, the maximum and minimum temperatures were recorded at 15.4 degree Celsius, three notches above normal, and 3.3 degree Celsius, one notch above the normal respectively. In Tehri, the maximum and minimum temperatures recorded were 16.4 degree Celsius and 3.8 degree Celsius respectively, he added.