Uttarakhand Meteorological centre has forecast light to moderate rain/thunder shower/snow at some places in Uttarakhand starting from Wednesday afternoon. Snowfall is likely to occur at places with height 3500 metres and above, the weathermen said, adding that such climatic condition is expected to continue till May 5. The Meteorological centre said that the rainy/snowy spell being expected to start from Wednesday afternoon, it would not impact the Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Uttarakhand visit, including his trip to Kedarnath shrine slated on the same day.
Meteorological centre director Bikram Singh said that the weather forecast for Dehradun on Wednesday is partly cloudy sky towards afternoon/evening. Thunder squall might lash some areas too during the evening or night hours on the day. The maximum and minimum temperatures are likely to be around 36 ºC and 19 ºC respectively in Dehradun on Wednesday. While the maximum settled at 35.0ºC (one degree above the normal) and the minimum at 17.3ºC (two degree below the normal) in Dehradun it was 23.6ºC (normal) and 10.5ºC (one degree below the normal) in Mukteshwar and 36.4ºC (one degree above the normal) and 16.0ºC (two degree below the normal) in Pantnagar on Tuesday. In Tehri district, maximum temperature was reported as 24.5 degree Celsius while the minimum was 10.8 degree Celsius on Tuesday.