The weather turning inclement as forecast by the Met officials, it has rained at Joshimath while it has snowed at Badrinath and other high altitude areas. In Dehradun too, the sky turned overcast towards the evening. The weathermen say that under the impact of the changing climate, the mercury-both the maximum and the minimum-would dip by a few notches across the state. On Tuesday, while the highest maximum temperature 28.4°C was recorded at Ghansali the lowest minimum temperature 3.1°C was recorded at Matela.
Hailstorm is likely to occur at isolated places in Dehradun, Tehri, Haridwar, Pauri, Nainital, Champawat and Udham Singh Nagar districts of Uttarakhand during next 72 hours starting from the morning of March 9. Moreover, heavy rain/snow is likely to lash isolated places in Kumaun region and Uttarkashi, Chamoli and Rudraprayag districts of Garhwal region during the next 72 hours starting from the morning of March 9.
Uttarakhand Meteorological Centre director Bikram Singh said that the weather forecast for Dehradun on Wednesday is partly cloudy to generally cloudy sky. One or two spells of light rain/thunder is likely to occur and the maximum temperature would come down in the city on Wednesday.
The maximum and minimum temperatures are likely to be around 26 ºC and 12 ºC respectively in Dehradun on Wednesday.
While the maximum settled at 28.0ºC (two degree above the normal) and the minimum at 10.1ºC (one degree below the normal) in Dehradun it was 18.0ºC (one degree above the normal) and 5.2ºC (normal) in Mukteshwar and 27.3ºC (one degree above the normal) and 5.2ºC (five degree below the normal) in Pantnagar on Tuesday. In Tehri district, maximum temperature was reported as 18.0 degree Celsius while the minimum was 6.5 degree Celsius on Tuesday.