Moderate rain lashed Dehradun on Wednesday night as per the weather department’s forecast, resulting in the mercury plunging by a few notches. The higher reaches of the state experienced snowfall on Wednesday and Thursday. The Met officials say that heavy rain and snow are likely to lash isolated places in Kumaon region and Uttarkashi, Chamoli and Rudraprayag districts of Garhwal region during the next 48 hours. Besides, hail and squall are likely to occur at isolated places in Dehradun, Tehri, Haridwar, Pauri, Nainital, Champawat and Udham Singh Nagar districts during the next 48 hours.
light to moderate rainfall was reported over the past 24 hours till 8.30 am on Thursday. 40 mm rainfall was reported each from Joshimath and Ukhimath while 30 mm each from Uttarkashi, Purola, Tyuni, Chinyalisaur, Mori, Jakholi and Munsiyari, 20 mm each from Dunda, Chamoli and Tehri and 10 mm each from Devprayag, Karnaprayag, Mukteshwar, Haldwani, Pauri, Srinagar, Dharchula, Rudraprayag, Barkot, Bhatwari and Dhari. Dehradun recorded 4.6 mm rainfall while it was 7.8 mm in Muketshwar and 2.9 mm in Pantnagar.
The highest maximum temperature of the state 26.1°C was recorded at Pantnagar while the lowest minimum temperature 0.8°C was recorded at Mukteshwar.
The weather forecast for Dehradun on Friday is generally cloudy sky and one or two spells of light rain/thunderstorm at many places. Hail is also likely to occur in some areas. The maximum and minimum temperatures are likely to be around 20ºC and 06ºC respectively in Dehradun on Friday.
While the maximum settled at 23.8ºC (two degree below the normal) and the minimum at 9.9ºC (two degree below the normal) in Dehradun it was 9.5ºC (seven degree below the normal) and 0.8ºC (four degree below the normal) in Mukteshwar and 26.5ºC (one degree below the normal) and 9.0ºC (one degree below the normal) in Pantnagar on Thursday. In Tehri district, maximum temperature was reported as 13.2 degree Celsius while the minimum was 1.2 degree Celsius on Thursday.