In a piece of good news for Uttarakhand going to the polls on February 15, the Meteorological centre said things would be clear on the day with no possibility of either rain or snow to impede poling. However, clouds might gather on Sunday, but would disperse by Monday and the climate would be clear for the next three/four days, the weathermen say. Dehradun saw a sunny day on Friday while the minimum temperatures remained normal in the plains and appreciably above normal in the hills of Uttarakhand. lowest minimum temperature 0.5°C was recorded at Matela, Nainital on Friday.
The weather forecast for Dehradun on Saturday is mainly clear sky. The maximum and minimum temperatures are likely to be around 24ºC and 7ºC respectively in Dehradun on Saturday.The maximum and minimum temperatures were recorded at 23.2ºC (two degree above the normal) and 6.9ºC (one degree below the normal) in Dehradun respectively while it was 14.2ºC (one degree above the normal) and 0.8 ºC (one degree below the normal) in Mukteshwar and 23.7ºC (normal) and 3.5ºC (four degree below the normal) in Pantnagar on Friday. In Tehri district, maximum temperature was reported as 16.0 degree Celsius while the minimum was 2.4 degree Celsius on Friday. The weather forecast on Sunday is dry weather and mist/shallow fog is likely to occur in some parts of plains of Uttarakhand especially Udham Singh Nagar, Haridwar and Nainital districts. The partly cloudy sky and dry weather is likely to prevail in Uttarakhand on February 13/14.