In view of the heavy snowfall warning issued by Uttarakhand Meteorological Centre for places at an altitude of 3000 metres and above in Uttarkashi, Chamoli, Rudraprayag, Bageshwar and Pithoragarh districts for 36 hours from early Saturday morning, the State administration has claimed to have taken measures to keep life as normal as possible.
The meteorological centre officials also warned that hail is likely to lash several parts of Dehradun, Haridwar, Pauri, Udham Singh Nagar and Nainital districts during the next 24 hours.
The sky remained overcast in the morning of Friday in Dehradun though things turned sunny during the noon.
The meteorological centre director Bikram Singh said on Friday that while fog formed at many places in the plains of the state the minimum temperatures remained normal to appreciably above normal in the plains and they were more or less normal in the hills. lowest minimum temperature 1°C was recorded from Nainital district on Friday, he added.
The weather forecast for Dehradun on Saturday is generally cloudy sky with possibility of one or two spells of light rain/thunderstorm. Hail is also likely to lash some areas.
The maximum and minimum temperatures are likely to be around 17 ºC and 6 ºC respectively in Dehradun on Saturday.
Maximum and minimum temperatures were recorded at 22.9ºC (four degree above the normal) and 7.6ºC (two degree above the normal) in Dehradun respectively while it was 13.5ºC (two degree below the normal) and 2.5ºC (normal) in Mukteshwar and 19.0ºC (one degree below the normal) and 9.8ºC (five degree above the normal) in Pantnagar on Friday.