Inclement weather continuing across the state over the past 24 hours, higher mountainous reaches experienced moderate to heavy snowfall while the plains had rains. Under the impact of the climatic conditions, the maximum temperature dipped by several notches as the minimum correspondingly surged a bit in Dehradun and its adjoining areas.
Weathermen say that the weather would be the same in Dehradun on Tuesday. They add that it would continue to rain and snow at isolated places in Uttarkashi, Chamoli, Rudraprayag, Bageshwar and Pithoragarh districts located at the altitude of 2000 metres and above. lowest minimum temperature 2.2°C was recorded in Tehri.
Dehradun residents woke up to an overcast sky with occasional drizzling. The maximum temperature plummeting by around five degrees, they felt the cold. However, the minimum rose by some degrees too.
Bikram Singh, Meteorological centre director, said that the inclement spell was caused by the Western disturbances. “While Dehradun experienced drizzle in the morning 0.5 mm rainfall was reported from Tehri,” he said.
The weather forecast for Dehradun on Tuesday is partly cloudy sky. The maximum and minimum temperatures are likely to be around 19 ºC and 07 ºC respectively in Dehradun on Tuesday. Maximum and minimum temperatures were recorded at 16.1ºC (three degree below the normal) and 10.6ºC (five degree above the normal) in Dehradun respectively while it was 10.3ºC (two degree below the normal) and 2.5ºC (one degree below normal) in Mukteshwar and 21.9ºC (two degree below the normal) and 5.0ºC (one degree below the normal) in Pantnagar on Monday.