Several places in the high reaches of mountainous districts of the State received light rain with snowfall over the past 24 hours. Muketshwar among other places received rain with snow on Wednesday. At several mountainous places, minimum temperature dipped below zero degree Celsius the same day. The minimum temperatures are expected to record two or three degree below the normal in both the plains and the mountainous parts of the state in the coming four days. Uttarakhand residents may witness cloudy sky in plains and light rain in mountainous parts on January 26/27.
Uttarakhand Meteorological Centre has forecast mainly clear to partly cloudy sky between January 21 and January 24.
The Met director Bikram Singh said that the maximum and minimum temperatures were recorded at 18.6 ºC and 6.6ºC in Dehradun while it was 7.3ºC and 0.1ºC in Tehri, 4.7ºC and minus 2.0ºC in Mukteshwar and 20.4ºC and 5ºC in Pantnagar on Wednesday.
The weather forecast for Dehradun on Thursdayis mainly clear sky. The maximum and minimum temperatures are likely to be around 19ºC and 05 ºC respectively in Dehradun on Thursday.
The Weather forecast for Uttarakhand on Thursday is dry weather. Fog or shallow fog is likely to occur at isolated places in the plains, especially Haridwar and Udham Singh Nagar. Ground frost is likely to occur at isolated places in hills of Uttarakhand on Thursday.